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...background to the Simon-Mussolini talks, Italy's Chamber of Deputies was treated to a stirring speech by Marquis Giacomo Medici del Vascello, rapporteur of Italy's Naval budget. Crediting Italy with a 12% reduction of her naval expenditures for the coming year, the Marquis cried: "Elsewhere the vision of peace for which the world clamors is receding. . . . During the useless [Disarmament Conference] discussions at Geneva, the three major naval powers [U. S., Britain and Japan] worked to add new vessels to their fleets. . . . Japan today invades China. Inspired by race hatred she will plan tomorrow against white...
Gallant Lady (20th Century) registers once more Hollywood's conviction that Ann Harding finds it difficult to reconcile her love life with a career. Since she divorced Harry Bannister two years ago because he was "becoming a background for my activities and looked upon as 'Ann Harding's husband,' " her producers have persistently set her to exploring marital problems of the day. Gallant Lady, a courteous description of a self-consciously noble character, catches up themes familiar to her recent pictures. Instead of the lovelorn plastic surgeon in The Right to Romance, blonde Actress Harding this...
...town Jeremiah, muttering philippic nonsense. His autobiography, Plain People, Heywood Broun called "prose of a sort to make every other journalist bite his nails with envy." The Saturday Review of Literature referred to him as the "spiritual legatee of Benjamin Franklin" because of his curt adages and his printshop background. Intelligent Kansans whom Ed Howe last week stopped rebuking for the first time in 60 years approve of him. At a dinner on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Globe, Ed Howe responded to a speech of felicitation by Senator Arthur Capper: "When we're criticized...
...other Hammett stories, the characters in The Thin Man have lives of their own, are not the traditional puppets with which a tired school of reading and writing has been content. They give the impression of three-dimensional figures whose background takes in far more than the few pages of their story; they act and talk unbookishly, with the hard, queer inconsequence of real life...
...machine shop, an 1863 Austin steamer, a one-cylinder Cadillac of 1902, the first Ford Model A of 1903, Ford's "999" racer with which he broke the world's speed record in 1902, the first Model T, the 15-millionth and 20-millionth Ford. Against this background, the Ford 1934 models were unveiled to the public simultaneously with countrywide unveilings in every Ford dealer's showrooms...