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Those who remember Soprano Talley fas a cornfed prima donna will scarcely recognize her in Follow Your Heart. On her Kansas wheat farm, whither she retired in a huff in 1929, she has trained down from 146 to 105 lb., is now slender, sharp-featured, vivacious. Definitely wooden as an actress, she displays a Mid-western twang when speaking, is at ease only when singing arias from Mignon and Les Huguenots, beside which the popular concoctions written for the film are apt to seem unusually hollow...
Money Talks. This week Generalissimo Franco hurled new offensive-? with redoubled violence in efforts to take Madrid swiftly, and a dispatch from the capital reported that President Manuel Azaňa of Spain had made all preparations to flee, if necessary, to. Valencia, whither he had sent several truckloads of his personal effects...
...Howard's Newspaper Enterprise Association lifted a banner to proclaim: "N. E. A.-WITH THE ONE & ONLY MAJOR HOOPLE!" Nearby, N. E. A.'s Hearstian arch-rival shrieked back in big black letters: "KING FEATURES- WITH THE ONE & ONLY GENE AHERN!" Purpose of the mammoth cocktail party whither this banner beckoned was to notify the trade that Cartoonist Gene Ahern, who originated and for 15 years drew famed Major Hoople of "Our Boarding House" for N. E. A., was henceforth to draw for King Features a new character called Judge Puffle, in a new feature called "Room & Board...
Author Stern's autobiographical scheme was also a psychological experiment. She decided to start from a casually selected object, let subconscious association's artful aid carry her whither it would; repeat the process twice, to the point where all three random lines met - "and see then whether the space they enclose remains a vacuum, or whether anything of interest, any personal King Charles's Head, has got itself involuntarily shut into the triangle."* The scheme has the merit of surprise: no one, not even Author Stern, can tell where she is going to end up. For example...
...Boswell's descendants were gentry, and did not propose to add any more fuel to their ancestor's reputation, already to their minds a little too lurid. From one respectable generation to another Boswell's manuscripts mouldered, first in Auchinleck Castle, then in Malahide Castle, Ireland, whither Lord Talbot de Malahide, Boswell's great-great-grandson and heir, transported them...