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...leering Tokyo scanned with rare delight last week a juicy story about French missionaries. Seemingly with full Government approval, closely censored news-organs shrieked details so lurid as to be ludicrous. Lecherous French missionaries, it appeared, have been seducing Japanese girls. The jealousy of two such wenches with respect to their priest caused one of them to unmask him to the police. An entire priestly gang has been making "minute topographic surveys of the Japanese coast with tiny cameras," hiding the films in French missionary churches. To protect themselves against the just wrath of the local Japanese populace, certain French...
Francis Lederer is the first matinee idol in years who seems able to delight both sexes and who possesses genuine histrionic talent. Charles Ruggles and Mary Boland again prove their right to the title of Hollywood's champion comedy pair and Joan Bennet is rapidly adding a screen presence to her considerable charms...
...Manhattan office last week Mr. Rabkin rubbed his hands with ill-concealed delight. Business was on the boom. This year the makers of penny arcade machines had hoped to gross $7,500,000. Already their income was above that figure. "Why, the industry's going to take in $12,000,000," chuckled Mr. Rabkin. His colleagues knew that the principal reason for their joyous prosperity was that glass-encased gadget which is currently the most popular and the most profitable of all penny arcade devices-the pin game...
Wild with delight over what looked like their first big victory, Guild members jubilated that night at a first birthday party at the Washington Press Club. But the fun was cut short by a bulletin: Donald Richberg, "Assistant President," had gone to the defense of Publisher Hearst, had asked the Labor Board to reopen the case. Again Chairman Biddle held court, heard what amounted to a rebuke to himself by Mr. Richberg and NRA Counsel Blackwell Smith on "respect, co-operation and support" of NRA Codes. Prime point: The order establishing the Labor Board said that it "may decline...
...rarely as Shelley's Spirit of Delight comes a first-rate children's book. Mary Poppins will not qualify for this category, for Publishers Reynal & Hitchcock announce that it is not a juvenile; it is a story written ostensibly for children but with sentimental implications no child could grasp. Reminiscent of A. A. Milne, Peter Pan, Sruwelpeter, et al., Mary Pop- pins is far above the low average of modern fairy stories, will delight readers who have been badly brought up in the matter of children's classics. But it is not another Alice in Wonderland. Mary...