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...guillotine takes its deadly toll as The Terror rules Paris. But Citizen Robespierre is annoyed. Victim after victim slips through his fingers and crosses the channel to England, all through the infernal machinations of that "Damned elusive Pimpernel." Into the background of eighteenth century France and England Leslie Howard fits like a package of cigarettes in cleophane. As the uncannily clever schemer disguised as an old hag, as the suave nobleman who courts, death to save his friends, the nobles of the French court, as the fastidious fop who advises the Prince of Wales on the proper jabeau, Howard...
...same name, it tells with superb, ironic power the story of Gypo Nolan (Victor McLaglen) and one night, his last, in the murky slums of Dublin. Implicit in its simple monstrous story is the portrait of a city, a revolution and a tragic human being, outlined against a background, shadowed and malevolent, of violence, murder, despair...
...majority of men forced to take English A are those least capable of carrying one more course than is necessary. The second criticism is that English A-1, as it is at present conducted, does not fulfill the needs of the unprepared freshman. It is felt that a literary background is quite as important and as necessary as a training in writing...
Spreading the argot of the modern newspaper against a Roman background, Mr. Irwin produces a world which, if you choose to have it so, is very real. Certain it is that an appreciative reader can become so engrossed in the intricate though ancient plot that the spontaneously exclaimed "Dixisti" will not bring forth a chuckle until the ridiculousness of the situation slowly sinks...
...German Supreme Court, emasculated and shoved into the background by Adolf Hitler's creation of a "supremer" People's Court (TIME, May 14, 1934 et seq.), last week was reduced to trying a petty divorce case. The husband, an ardent Nazi, accused his wife of disliking Adolf Hitler. She retorted through her lawyers that disliking Adolf Hitler and saying so to one's own husband is not grounds for divorce, appealed the suit to higher & higher courts which sustained the Nazi husband every time. Last week the German Supreme Court gave the Hitlerish husband his freedom, established...