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Victoria the Great (RKO Radio). Shaking from her pretty shoulders the garish costumes of two previous cinema roles-as Nell Gwyn and Peg Woffington -Britain's beloved Anna Neagle last week traced with pomp and piety Queen Victoria's long reign. Because the film is lengthy, because its subject is the most sanctified one in British history, awed critics detoured around its rough spots with wistful allusions to Helen Hayes and Victoria Regina, vaguely said that the picture, presenting almost precisely the same episodes as did Laurence Housman's play, was perhaps about as good...
Married. Howard Carrington Kresge, son of chain-store Merchant Sebastian Spering Kresge (5-10-25? stores); to Anna May Walker, of Detroit...
...President celebrated two anniversaries, those of 1) the death of Polish General Casimir Pulaski, Revolutionary War hero, for whom he made a brief speech upholding ". . . the ideal of human society which makes conscience superior to brute strength." 2) The birthday of his wife, Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, to whom he gave a watertight wrist watch to replace one she ruined at a beach last summer...
...Mussolini took her small son Romano and baby daughter Anna Maria down by car from the Mussolini family farm at Forli to say good-by to papa at Bologna. There his special train from Rome paused for family kisses and heartily the Dictator bussed young Mrs. Vittorio Mussolini whose husband was en route to Hollywood (see p. 21). Later at Trento, where in his youth Mussolini was imprisoned, crowds roared "Viva II Duce!" and he shouted back "Viva Trento!" The train chuffed on, stopped for several hours in the mountains during the night to give the Dictator a better chance...
Joyce's post-Ulyssean prose style is composed almost entirely of dream-scrambled verbalisms (Anna Livid Plurabelle, Work in Progress) which by some are highly touted as a significant experiment, seem to others merely words in a helter-skelter retreat from significance. Joyce himself used them sparingly in Pomes Penyeach (1927), eschews them entirely in Ecce Puer (1936), his single four-quatrain poem written during the last decade. His later poems, which in general hew to the line of modern Irish minor verse, in their essential scope are no advance over his earlier pseudo-madrigals. All arise from...