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This amazing criticism can only be explained on the theory that you have not read the platforms, for whatever else may be said of the Democratic platform, the criticism that it is "not clear to the understanding" is a confession of lack of intelligence on the part of the critic, or lack of knowledge of what it contains...
Hollywood Speaks (Columbia), another exercise in self scrutiny by the film industry, begins like What Price Hollywood with an opening at Grauman's Chinese Theatre and ends with suicide and scandal. Pat O'Brien is a critic who needs an aspirin and clutches at the bottle in the hand of an extra girl (Genevieve Tobin). The bottle holds poison. He builds a new life for her, makes her a star while she blandishes a famed director. The director's wife commits suicide, blaming Genevieve Tobin in a note which a blackmailer finds. In retrieving the note...
...last year there has been a surprising number of books on French art. This is an encouraging fact, since it shows that the interest of the general reading public is no longer limited to the Renaissance. This book by the art critic of the London Times is an "introduction" and no more. It adds nothing to the study of French painting, and merely repeats rather well to be sure, what has been said many times before...
Sued. Helen Hayes MacArthur, actress (The Good Fairy), wife of Playwright Charles MacArthur (The Front Page, Lulu Belle) by Playwright Mac Arthur's first wife, Carol Frink MacArthur, cinema critic of the Chicago Herald & Examiner; for $100,000. Charge: alienation of Playwright MacArthurs affections...
Anaconda. Long a loquacious critic of Board Chairman Charles Edwin Mitchell of National City Bank, Senator Glass beamed when Chairman Mitchell admitted that National City Co.'s dealings in common stock were illadvised, that its sale of 300,000 shares of Anaconda Copper to customers at about $125 (now $4) a share had not "created any good will and had created ill will." But he denied that high-pressure methods had been utilized. He disclaimed all knowledge of National City's Directors Percy Avery Rockefeller and Dairies Alexander Stillman participating in an Anaconda pool. He agreed with Senator Glass that...