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...equivocal upshot of a Kohler beside a La Follette on the Republican ticket left people wondering where the balance of Wisconsin power lay for the Presidential election. Senator John James Elaine, the La Follette colleague, had said: "All my friends will vote for Governor Smith." On the other hand, all good Kohlerites are Hooverites...
...Dance. Hollywood has the fixed idea that, in every cinema about Russia, the handsome grand duke must inwardly love the down-trodden peasantry and must outwardly love one peasant girl. The upshot is that, inevitably, the grand duke and the girl escape across the border to avoid being butchered by the shaggy Soviets. In The Red Dance they do it in an airplane. And yet, the film is first-class entertainment. Dolores Del Rio and Charles Farrell are a capable pair, though they do not look very Russian. To Ivan Linow went the sympathy and the praise of the audience...
...seems stifled when, located in a charity home, with a zither player, a retired fireman, an orphan oaf called Fester, a man with an elephant, and a Park Avenue dowager for companions, they become heroines of a story of which the dizziness does not compensate for the length. The upshot of the story is that Mrs. Flusser inherits $20,000,000 and the old gals pack up their Sunday stays and hug-me-tights to go and live in style...
...guess the upshot...
...able to visualize the result of a beauty contest in a small Ohio town. The church, probably seeing goodness and truth in beauty as well as beauty in goodness and truth, was anxious to stimulate interest in higher values. A Miss Little won the contest; her lot and the upshot of the whole affair was that her father directed two well-aimed shots at the two champions of the champion...