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Others of the clay frontierswomen are as frail as Lillian Gish (F. Lynn Jenkins'), as strong as Abe Lincoln (James Fraser's), cute as Ann Pennington (Mario Korbel's), homely as Will Rogers (Mahonri Young's), expressionless as the Venus de Milo (Arthur...
...Story is not laid in Abe-deen* but in Vienna. It begins with a speech: "In whose hands is the press and therefore public opinion? In the hands of the Jew! Who has piled billions upon billions . . . ? The Jew! Who controls the tremendous circulation of our money, who sits at the director's desk in the great banks, who is the head of practically all industries? The Jew! Who owns our theatres? The Jew! Who writes the plays that are produced? The Jew! Who rides about in automobiles, who revels in the night resorts, who crowds the cafes and fashionable...
...narrow-minded on the subject of the K.K.K. ? Would TIME say of Abe Lincoln, "once there was a mediocre storekeeper...
Piteous Plight. The answer came from Cape Town, South Africa, where there arrived last week from London three potent officials of the Diamond Trust: Lieutenant Colonel Solomon Barnato Joel, Sir Ernest Oppenheimer and Sir Abe Bailey. Proceeding to the Ministry of Mines and Industries these gentlemen figuratively rent their garments. Cried millionaire Solomon B. Joel piteously: "Diamonds will become as common as artificial pearls if the present unrestricted output from 'independent' alluvial diggings continues. . . . Something must be done to alter the present situation. Why, the alluvial diggers are now actually selling more diamonds than the great producers...
...brothels. Their Presbyterian mother dies young and their worldy-wise Kentucky step-mother is taken up and pushed aside as brusquely by Author Cohen as by aging, bitter, impotent Daniel. A final tour de force, significant perhaps but fraught with almighty coincidence, is the ascendancy of "the alien conqueror," Abe Ullman, Daniel's scheming merchandiser, who captures the big store from the children and is in turn captured by a onetime countergirl whom Freddie Pardway seduced. There are power and sweep to Sweepings (the title comes from old Daniel's pennyscrimping examinations of the store's daily...