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...announcement that there would be no provision for the sinking fund to retire the national debt, which last year bit ?32,500,000 out of the Budget. Penny a Pint. As far as the British taxpayer was concerned, there was only one encouraging word in the Budget, that was Beer. The income tax remained at its old basic tax rate of five shillings in the pound-25%, the highest income tax in the world, though Chancellor Chamberlain offered a slight sop by restoring the old method of collecting in equal half-yearly installments instead of demanding three-quarters...
Last week the marriage clerk, who had suffered paralytic strokes and was "a little bit confused," was fined $15,000, sentenced to four months at Fort Eustis...
...goes from lecture hall to lecture hall, even though her arm is broken when an enemy aviator topples a piece of the Empire State Building on her. She is heckled and hooted, her house ransacked. Her son, her disciple, finally swells out his chest, lumps his throat a bit, hides it with a firm chin, and goes off to war in an aeroplane...
Evidently planned to cash in on the reputation of "Maedchen in Uniform," "Kadetten," the current German film at the Fine Arts, sets a bit of not-quite-nice love against the background of strict Prussian discipline of a military training school; but the result falls far short of the merit of its model...
Plot is the essential weakness of the film. The acting--what there is of it--is good, though long closeups of Cadel Zeddin registering speechlessness are a bit trying. Probably three of the six reels are taken up with hand-kissing and heel-clicking. Trude ron Molo, the mother, is a good actress, but gets little opportunity to be anything more than pleasant. There is, however, an under able fascination about life in German military schools which perhaps compensates for the mediocrity of other aspects of the production...