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When I heard His Majesty's final words -'I cannot carry on without the woman I love-I realized I still had respect tor him. ... I had enough loyalty left for Edward to let me cease doing anything that might annoy...
...nine years from Jan. 1, 1928 to Jan 1 1937 there were 55 wrecks of scheduled U. S. passenger airliners bringing death to 181 passengers, or one tor every 2,000,000 miles of flight. Best year was 1933, when airlines flew 21,700,000 passenger-miles per fatality. Worst accident year on record for U. S. railroads was 1907, when they killed 647 passengers while running 27,700,000,000 passenger-miles. This was 42,800,000 passenger-miles per fatality or about twice as good as the air's best record. In 1936, though the lines equaled...
...Federal District Court, filed Promoter Spear's suit for $1,000,000 damages against Papa Dionne, Doctor Dafoe, the Quintuplets' guardians and others. Grounds: breaking a contract & conspiring to break it. Twice the suit was dismissed, but a third amended complaint stuck. Last week counsel for Doc tor Dafoe sought to finish the affair once...
...Senate was considering a bill appropriating $50,000,000 for crop, feed and seed loans to farmers. Senator after Sena tor was rising to put in good word, to make a friendly gesture towards his constituents, when Carter Glass of Virginia rose with a sly light in his sharp...
Packed with more downright charm and fun than any other show on Broadway, High Tor droops only occasionally when Miss Ashcroft or an incidental Indian has to declaim some of Playwright Anderson's indefatigable verse. As to acting, more important theft than the stage bank robbery is Actor Charles D. Brown's outright steal of the whole show in the part of De Witt, the oldest and saltiest Dutchman. For years cast as a theatrical cop or robber, Actor Brown comes into his own at last when, in pantaloons and a huge hat, he comes to grips with...