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i SIDEGLANCES -. - By George Cark | «“Evening cost a lot more than I'd planned . . . means ‘no lunches rest of week . . . that kiss was worth it.” | Tas Curious Wort BIBLE, THE VERSE 4 EZRA @:2I, * * CONTAINS ALL THE LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET, EXCEPT ‘Jy WHICH ORIGI- As ~I* ©1996 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. 0/77 MOST fresh water fish have gas, and a small amount of oxygen, but marine fish have more of the latter than the former. These bladders not only make it pos- sible for fish to float at any level, but enable them to withstand ‘varying degrees of water pressure. By William Ferguson _ |] BRANQING | WAS A LEGAL Fy] PUNISHMENT YEARS AGO, BUT OFTEN | IT WAS ONLY. A FORMALITY... f WITH A ; COLD IRON | BEING USED. air-bladders filled with nitrogen AT THE MOVIES Foreign Nobleman Is Film’s Central Figure ‘The romantic story of a titled fhobleman who marries an American girl, and then sets about to prove thimself a better American than she as and a better cowboy than his meighbors in Arizona, is presented in “My American Wife,” Paramount pic- ture starring Francis Lederer and lovely Ann Sothern. The film is to ‘open Thursday at the Paramount Theatre. The star of “One Rainy Afternoon” 4s given a story perfectly suited to his charm in “My American Wife,” and Miss Sothern, in light-footed roman- tic sequences of the film, proves her- eelf a perfect screen mate for the European actor. Fred Stone, Billie Burke, Ernest Cossart and Grant Mitchell head the supporting cast. Giving a “reverse angle twist” to the theme of the wealth-secking Old World aristocrat and the title-seek- ing American girl, the fflm introduces Lederer and Sothern after their mar- riage. Lederer finds Arizona, his ‘bride's home, to his liking. He wants to-become a rancher and make his diving from the soil. His wife, however, is led by her mother into making capital of Led-; erer’s social prestige. She forgets her Arizona background and insists up- n keeping her husband in braid and medals. The romance aimost hits the rocks before the two are reunited. GE WISE - DEMAND WRIGLEY'S Good Cook Finally Lands Millionaire “If You Could Only Cook” has been @ waggish American phrase. Now it provides the title and the theme of a delightful comedy which opens today at the Capitol Theatre with Herbert Marshall and Jean Arthur in the starring roles. Marshall and Miss Arthur do their stuff in fine fashion under the capa- ble direction of William A. Seiter in this opus. They make a grand team, Herbert end Jean. He is seen as a troubled millionaire, unhappy because he is betrothed to a society girl he doesn't love and because the board of direc- tors of his automobile concern is be- ing very difficult. She is a young lady whom he finds sitting on a park ‘bench anxiously reading want ads, with all her worldly goods packed in @ shabby valise. Taking him for a down-on-his-luck white collar worker, the girl suggests that they take a job together as a butler and a maid. The millionaire soberly agrees. Pretending to be a married couple, they go to work in the household of a big-shot ‘racketeer. Difficulties are bound to spring from such @ mad situation. Especi- jally when the millionaire, already promised to another, is careless} enough to fall in love with the girl | who knows how to cook. But, with / ; BISMARCK TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1996 the help of the racketeer, played to a finish by Leo Carrillo, everything turns out all right by the time it’s over. Lionel Stander, who sprang to fame as the raspy-volced poet in “The Scoundrel,” is hilarious as Car- rillo’s right-hand man. lane hard roads, 967,000 miles of two- lane hard roads, 160,000 miles of con- crete, asphalt, etc., 324,000 miles of state roads, 975,000 miles of surfaced roads, and 2,676,000 mijes of second- ary country and township roads. A starfish has no brain, but it is learn. THE GUMPS—TURNING ON THE HEAT ANO THEN, WITH A SUDDEN FLASH O INSPIRATION, MyRA SPRINGS TO THE CONNECTING FRANTICALLY PICKS AT THE LOCK WITH A SAFETY PIN- FOR T'DAYS GRAMMAR LESSON )A NOUN (5 TH’ WE TAKE UP NOUNS AN’ PRO— , NAME OF SOME- NOUNS! ELOSSIE FIZ2PAN, WOTS { THINS & PRO— ‘The U. 8. has 8,000 miles of multi-| ALLEY OOP TH’ DIFFERENCE 2 NOUN (S @ WORD WHICH TAKES TH’ PLACE OF A NOUN! THEN, BOSWELL, 1’ LAD|| PRONOUN, CAN YOU GIVE ME an || Boz IE? ae Mn ON ANOTHER MOMENT, WITH A LAP, MYRA IS BUSY SMALL 006 IN HER SCRAWLING A MESSAGE. IN LIPSTICK, ON CP. Wy WIM WAS, (KE TGO OW A CAMP INS’ TRIP WITH ME?"