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Alarm over the North China area larger than Ethiopia which Japan is trying to detach from China's Nanking Government by military intimidation and a "war without battles'' (TIME, Dec. 9) last week brought Chinese War Minister General Ho Ying-chin hotfoot to Peiping. After heroic haggling with the resident Japanese militarists, General Ho was expected to announce this week a "new status" for North China, ambiguous and unsatisfactory to all concerned. Fresh Japanese brandishing of Might was expected to follow...
...Conrad's earnings from his 13 published works amounted to less than ?5. Among English writers who took themselves, their ideas and art with great solemnity, the young Shaw appeared as a wild man, a 27-year-old Irishman who "had nailed the Red Flag to his chin," and who made a name for himself merely by asking "the most unusual questions" at stodgy public discussions. Maurois briefly recounts the major events of Shaw's career, does not point out the significance of his victories over one after another of his rivals. When William Archer agreed to collaborate...
...have plots. This one is mostly about Eleanor Powell and a producer, Robert Taylor. She went to school with him, but when she comes to New York for a job on the stage she forgets to give him the sign of the goat (waving of the fingers underneath the chin); so he doesn't recognize her. But does she finally get her big chance? In the last shot are they embracing behind a bush? She does. They...
...quiet, chuckly evening in the theatre. Let Freedom Ring (adapted by Albert Bein; Bein & Goldsmith, producers) is another blow at industrial Bondage & the Bosses. Like most radical literature, "agitprop" drama seems curiously limited not only as to symbolism but as to narrative. The humble workers take it on the chin for a couple of acts, then stage a strike during which the hero is killed. The finale still finds the strike unsettled, but homegoing playgoers are given the impression that a desirable proletarian militancy has been aroused and better days are probably ahead for the workers of the world...
Boiled Miss Barrymore, digging her nails into the young woman's chin: "The hell I can't, you little wart! . . . You little rat! ... You little bitch...