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...Received notice from Rome that Señor Villigas, the Chilean Ambassador, had signed with Signor Mussolini a ten-year treaty of arbitration and amity. Significantly, this is the first treaty of this kind to be signed between Italy and an American nation,† though Signor Mussolini has woven a network of eleven sinister pacts linking Italy with England, Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Spain, Yemen, Rumania and Albania...
...bellied, wenching Sir Jeremy (Sydney Greenstreet) who engineered the titillating situation and kept the audience chuckling while he explained the young wife's earnest efforts, in the next room, to quicken the corpse. His double-meanings, the play's liveliest, are neatly turned. Playwright Dorranee Davis has woven an ancient habiliment for his modern comedy. Because it is not fish of the Restoration, fowl of the Jazz Age, or flesh of sound drama, it fritters off into neglibility...
Came Ratu Popi Seniloli, Great Chief of Fiji, who yet takes orders from that greater chief, Sir Eyre Hutson, Governor of Fiji and High Commissioner for the Western Pacific. Attired in a garment of woven bark (tapa), and resplendent in a necklace of polished whale's teeth,* Great Chief Ratu Popi presented the Duke with the tooth of a sperm whale...
...them a bowl of the sacred nectar kava, "by drinking which the Chief is brought near and like unto his people." When this potent beverage had been mixed, stirred, and the more solid ingredients pounded in a great bowl, the Chief personally strained it through a filter of woven bark, saying: "This make kava very nice. This take out all the grit." The Duke, no weakling, downed a huge swallow of kava. Thereafter, although flushed for a moment, he gave no sign or indication of its taste...
...cinema what a "smart-crack" is to theatre?an action or series of actions (instead of words) conceived and perfected as a distinct unit to be woven into sequence with other "gags," as close together as may be. Funnyman Lloyd, gag connoisseur, exhausted the combined efforts of three expert gagsters in making The Kid Brother...