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...long and gay party after another, what men want is still "It", is the humble impression gleaned from a thoroughly unenlightened hour in the fifth row. Cynicism, real live raciness, speed, boredom, naivete, a boy and a girl on horseback, and several admittedly clever studio shots are all hurled thither and yon for the bafflement of the audience. But you can't fool skilled observers. It's sex, and, incidentally, one of the most abortive attempts at entertainment that Hollywood has seen fit to foist on Americana. Time your entrance for "Manslaughter" and if you don't know what...
Ymuiden, on the North Sea, is the small site of the biggest lock. Thither rode two portly women last week from The Hague: motherly Queen Wilhelmina and womanly Crown Princess Juliana, who at 21 has the placid tastes and pious, frugal habits of a Dutch matron...
Before going off to War, Major Hurley asked the beauteous and accomplished Ruth Wilson to marry him. She sent him to her father, Rear Admiral Henry B. Wilson, commander of the Atlantic fleet, then lying in the Hudson River. Thither the love-struck Major hastened. He says life's greatest thrill came when the Admiral's barge took him off to the flagship where he was ceremoniously piped over the rail. Formally, as one U. S. officer to another, he presented his compliments to the Admiral, requested his daughter's hand in marriage. After the War they...
...true monument? . . . A picture comes to my mind of 1915?a crowded theatre in London, the sudden onslaught of bombs dropping from high up in the air, the rush of startled humanity to the open street, defenceless mortals running hither and thither, a woman screaming as she clutched to her breast the bloody body of a year-old baby and watched her baby's head pitch to the gutter...
...borrow the jail of Broward County for the execution, were chased away by the County Commissioners, who insisted a U. S. hanging should occur on U. S. property. So a great gallows was erected within the gaunt metal hangar of the U. S. Coast Guard station near Fort Lauderdale. Thither was escorted Alderman, full of repentance and new-found "religion." Greatest secrecy surrounded the execution. Newsmen were barred under threats of contempt of court. Guardsmen, pale in the pale dawn light, ringed the hangar as Alderman mounted the scaffold. A singing sea breeze through the shed swayed his body...