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Hedy Lamarr's first husband, Austrian Munitions Tycoon Fritz Mandl, now an exile, concluded a visit to the U. S. by buying two 10,000-ton cargo ships and sailed for Rio de Janeiro with his wife No. 2, Austrian Actress Herta Schneider. His use for the ship's: to carry cargoes to Europe from Argentina, where he is starting out afresh as a tycoon...
...Mikhailovich Maisky, trotted around to No. 9 Downing Street one day last week to reiterate the Soviet Union's first concrete complaint against British war behavior. On Jan. 13, British warships off Formosa stopped the Red freighter Selenga, en route from a Chinese port to Vladivostok with a cargo of tin, antimony and wolframite (tungsten ore). They took the Selenga clear to Hong Kong for examination, on the suspicion that the metals were destined for Germany via the Trans-Siberian Railway. Last week the Selenga and her cargo were still detained at Hong Kong, when in came the Vladimir...
...Strange Cargo (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is The Passing of the Third Floor Back, laid in Devil's Island and environs instead of in a cheap London lodging-house. Tall, bland, humorous-eyed Ian Hunter is the Christlike central figure. The tangled lives he sets right are not those of petty, shabby, roominghouse misfits, but such splendid votaries of violence as Clark Gable (Convict Verne), Joan Crawford (a fille de joie wearing Miss Crawford's best Oh-God-the-pity-of-it facial), Paul...
Part of its strange power Strange Cargo derives from the tact, restraint and experience of Director Frank Borzage, who made A Farewell to Arms. Part it derives from the fact that all the actors are as perfectly typed as Joan Crawford, who, under one guise or another, has been playing Sadie Thompson so long that the part is almost second nature. Like her, Hollywood has been making Devil's Island pictures so long it has almost perfected the formula. This perfect Hollywood formula is turned into a highly unusual picture by the surprising performance of Ian Hunter...
...list of biggest everythings, last week the U. S. added the B-19, a 70-ton flying battleship, capable of flying to Europe and back at from 200-300 m.p.h. with a 28-ton "useful" load of bombs, fuel, crew, miscellaneous cargo.* "Useful" load is not to be confused with bomb load; how much the bomb load is in the B-19 the Army did not care to say. care...