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...called Sybil Jason, imported from Capetown by way of London. Among child actresses, Sybil Jason is to Shirley Temple as Jean Harlow is to Ann Harding: less whole some but more refreshing. She made her stage debut at 3. doing imitations of Greta Garbo in English vaudeville. As a contract actress at Warners, she has been held in minor roles to permit her to "develop." Her current appearance is supposed to whet the appetite of cinemaddicts for her first starring vehicle, Everybody's Sweetheart, to be produced this spring...
...Land of Promise" almost deceives one into believing that the World War was worth fighting. It shows the eager and powerful strides of the Jews to renew the contract between Jehovah and the patriarchs: to take advantage of the British mandatory over Palestine and to reassert their nationality geographically as well as spiritually...
...Again, I understand the average wheat contract in Kansas runs in the neighborhood of $800. But I know, for example, of one such contract . . . which produced 65 checks for a total of $78,638 in two years...
...concern (TIME, Sept. 9 et seq.). Dressy Mr. Rickett's importance survived last autumn's misadventure because his safe continued to be the repository for the concession for the subsoil rights to precisely the two-thirds of Ethiopia that Benito Mussolini wants. The contract gives Rickett five years in which to implement the deal with capital...
...crucial moment squirts fire extinguisher fluid out of his pistol into the gangster's eyes. Aged 9, Bartlett, in the Hollywood tradition, supports a mother, an ailing War-veteran father, three small sisters on his salary as a stock contract player...