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...single vote vote has deadlocked every important question, nipped in the bud all chance of action--that is, until it became apparent that great issues stood no chance of success in that body and ceased to be raised. If a simple majority vote, backed by the threat of an economic boycott, were possible today, England, France, and Italy might act for peace against Nazi aggression through the League; as it is, they are endangering their own prospects of peace, their relations with central European powers, by acting as separate nations in rebuking Hitler, warning him against further action in Austria...
...plot of the picture deals with the adventures of an old rake in love with a young bud. Conway Tearle, as Max, the rake, is rightly cast and capable. His fortunes are complicated by the presence of Winifred (Katharine Alexander), who has for some time been his mistress and Laura (Alice Brady), who imagines herself to have been his mistress once. These two women scorned, naturally feel internally agitated at being cut out by a more twig, the niece of one, the daughter of the other. Alice Brady, in her role of a flighty and almost mindless but well-meaning...
...annual supper dance of the Harvard Menorah Society will be held tonight at 10 o'clock, in the Southern House in Brookline, with Lew Tobin and his Hotel Wentworth Orchestra supplying the music. Supper will be served at midnight, and the dance will continue until 2 o'clock. Bud Brooks of radio fame, as well as eight other radio entertainers, will be there...
High School. When Chick was 6, his fa ther began teaching him to kick. Last year Chick gave an exhibition between halves of the California-St. Mary's game, kicked 108 consecutive goals from the 10 yd. line (20 yd. from the goal posts). His Brother Bud, 12, is less interested, less proficient. Between halves of last week's game at the Polo Grounds, in which the New York Giants swamped the Philadelphia Eagles 56-to-0, Father & Son Brickley started the schoolboy kicking carnival, saw a youngster named Charles Goodell of New York's Curtis High...
Stoopnagle and Bud, famous for their work on the radio, perform on the stage with a seemingly natural knack of knowing what will get a laugh. They take off Rudy Valee, Bert Lahr, and the Barbasol Man. The imitation of Rudy's singing by Bud was excellent, and elicited many healthy sniggers from the audience. No less commendable in the stage show was a couple which did the tango and rumba gracefully...