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...Should Ladies Behave" screen adaptation of that popular comedy, "The Vinegar Tree" that it is line with the recently surging public demand for film invoicing country houses with a great deal of white wainscote and Alice Brads. Unlike its predecessors in the field it is not graced by the presence of Myrna Loy and Ana Harding; this even if you like the acting of that pair, is a fortunate thing, lending variety...
...parents, Laura (Alice Brady) and grouchy old Augustus (Lionel Barrymore) are drawn into the picture. Laura mistakes Max Lawrence for a man with whom she spent a happy night before her marriage. A gay, trivial, skillfully situated matrimonial comedy derived from last season's play The Vinegar Tree, Should Ladies Behave is most amusing when it shows two of the best dramatic actors in the U. S. cinema spreading their talents thickly upon slapstick scenes. Samples: Lionel Barrymore eating a cold duck with indigestive grunts; Alice Brady fluttering in unjustified anticipation when Max Lawrence tells her he is planning...
...result, the condition of Newfoundland is "desperate." both politically and financially, according to the Royal 'Commission headed by that uncompromising, vinegar-tongued Scot, Sir William Warrender Mackenzie, ist Baron Amulree of Strathbraan. Last week prudent Lord Amulree had put the Atlantic between himself and Newfoundland when his Commission's report was published simultaneously in London and at St. John's. It declared 'that Newfoundland's chief industry-fisheries-is rotten to the core, that Newfoundland fishermen have become, under a "vicious credit system," practically the serfs of the merchants of St. John...
...called out to purge the dump whence the cricket hosts seemed to emanate, was repeatedly baffled. Professional exterminators say that the only way to get rid of crickets is to feed them bits of fish or vegetables coated with chemicals, chiefly arsenic. Crickets are guzzlers of beer and sweetened vinegar, may be trapped and drowned in deep glass vessels half-filled with either...
...with a dye from the "Kermes berry." Kermes is not a berry at all but a bug - a reddish, wingless female insect, relative to the cochineal of Mexico, that lays its eggs on oak leaves throughout southern Europe. The insects are killed in a vapor of hot vinegar, dried, and ground for pigment. It takes 10 to 12 lb. of kermes to produce as red a color as one pound of cochineal. The Louvre lady's lips are of cochineal, unknown in Europe before Cortes brought it back in 1523, unknown in Italy for 20 years more. Leonardo...