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Should Ladies Behave (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When the fiancé (William Janney) of cunning little Leone Merrick (Mary Carlisle) tells her that she lacks sophistication, the consequences of his naïveté are fearful. Leone makes kittenish advances to Max Lawrence (Conway Tearle), the middle-aged lover of her Aunt Winkie (Katharine Alexander). When Aunt Winkie, Leone, Geoffrey and Max arrive at the Merrick's country house for a weekend, Leone's parents, Laura (Alice Brady) and grouchy old Augustus (Lionel Barrymore) are drawn into the picture. Laura mistakes Max Lawrence for a man with whom...
...supplied, however, was money to put these new pension ratings into effect. Last month an obedient House passed the Independent Offices Appropriation Bill, carrying $493,000,000 for vet- erans-just the figure the President wanted. Last week when the measure came up in the Senate, the veterans' storm broke. Before it cleared, the Senate had set the President's economy program back by nearly...
...sack suits, exotic pajamas, and tailcoats, equips him with an effete but worldly-wise valet, shows him in modernistic apartments, offices, and on board ship, pursuing a Bebe Daniels who has dyed her hair blonde for the occasion. He is a market operator of incredible riches and naïveté who has never taken a drink or run after a woman until a friend makes a friendly bet at a party-it is an old story and the treat-ment is old too, in spite of the settings. Douglas Fairbanks carries it off as nearly in his inimitable manner...
...Ohio's Bulkley (to continue with him as a handy specimen) is not yet at any disadvantage since his fellow Harvard man, Governor Roosevelt of New York, and that Johns Hopkins bachelor, four-time Governor Ritchie of Maryland, have neither of them found their greatest & best friends vet, and Owen D. Young will require a whole distinguished reception committee before he will admit he is running...
Definite announcement of the names of the men who will substitute for the above named absentees has not been made in all cases as vet but will be in the near future...