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...House of Lords should balk at this, his Majesty must then be "ad- vised" (i. e. compelled) to create enough new peers to pass the bill and give Labor's premier Rooseveltian powers. Knowing Britain's upper classes for what they are-hard and sturdy nuts to crack-Sir Stafford fears class war over...
Eight Bells (by Percy G. Mandley; A. C. Blumenthal, producer) takes place on a crack British sailing ship, becalmed when news of the 1914 declaration of War is signaled by a passing liner. A drag-out fight has already flared between the ranting bully of a captain (Colin Clive) and his admirable first mate (John Buckler). Criminally stupid or incredibly irresponsible, the cause of the fight is the captain's wife, the owner's daughter (Rose Hobart), whom the mate once hoped to marry. The two biggest racial groups in the crew are British and German, next biggest...
...Kummer usually exhibits flash and speed if not power and drive. Having absolutely nothing to say, she nevertheless manages to say it pleasantly, and her latest piece, dealing with the young Farrars of Homewood, N. J., is additionally brightened by the return from Hollywood of droll Roland Young and crack-brained Laura Hope Crews. Ned Farrar (Mr. Young) is an irresponsible husband who "makes just enough not to get along on," loses his job, accepts a position as handyman in the home of his wife's rich aunt (Miss Crews). This lady, unaware of his identity, takes a strong...
...with gilded temple spires, Siam's moon-faced Premier Phya Bahol last week went to work on the lively little rebellion of King Prajadhipok's cousins, Princes Bavaradej and Sithiporn (TIME, Oct. 23). From 15 mi. to the north the young rebel fops of Siam's crack air force flew out of their Donmuang Airdrome and dropped among Bangkok's spires circulars claiming that they could take the city in two days except that their friends and relatives in the city might get hurt. Premier Bahol raked up ten pilots loyal to his Cabinet and sent...
...motorboat, headed for Sheepshead Bay. The wind swept them off their course, far out to sea. Their gasoline gave out, they drifted for five days without food or water. On the sixth day, according to Warshauer, they sighted the S. S. Conte Biancamano, crack passenger liner of the Lloyd Sabaudo Line. When the steamer came within hailing distance, the castaways waved distress signals, shouted for help. Passengers and crew waved back, they said, but the liner sailed by without stopping. Two days later Coast Guardsmen rescued the drifting men, rushed them to a hospital where Tuchyner died. David Warshauer, permanently...