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People! Nov. 18! Ethel Barrymore and a cargo of Bronx cheers for every performance! Of all the - -* women she undoubtedly takes the highest honors. In truck drivers it is temper, in artists it is temperament. . . . A lady...
...Jersey announced that his firm had been doing business with Italy for more than 40 years and was not ready to quit now. The American Export Liner Exochorda, one of the biggest U. S. freighters in the Mediterranean service, steamed out of Jersey City with the greatest cargo in her career, consisting chiefly of such near-war materials as lubricating oil, copper, motors, apparently consigned to Italy...
...fleets of the Western Powers was demonstrated last week in Southeast China, far from the land front of Japanese expansion but thoroughly vulnerable by sea. Three weeks ago the Japanese flagship Tatsuta and ten destroyers steamed into Swatow to force Chinese customs officials to yield up a seized Japanese cargo of rice on which petty provincial taxes had not been paid (TIME, Oct. 14). With set faces, the Japanese Navy officers demanded restitution, apologies, punishment of Canton customs men, abolition of the annoying duties and the right of Japanese to trade in the upriver country back of Swatow...
...added interest, there is a large cargo of gold in close juxtaposition to a hold full of Chinese pirates dressed up as prostitutes. Thus you can see that even without a typhoon to contend with, Captain Gable is in for a fairly rough trip...
...leisurely, the more adventurous because it contrasted so sharply with the sleepy green countryside through which the horses pulled the boats. Against a detailed and wholly charming background, made up of boaters' quarrels and friendships, their odd songs and foolish curses, their contempt for hogs as cargo, their obstreperous pride in getting drunk and having fights, the picture outlines an incident which fits perfectly into the nostalgic mood which its surroundings have produced. It is the surprisingly touching story of a farm boy (Henry Fonda), working as a boater because he wants money to buy land, and a girl...