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...farmers hold their crop in the barns, while the Trust offers bribe prices to growers who do not belong. When recalcitrant growers refuse to join the Association, they are warned. After two warnings, masked night riders drag them out of bed, force them to destroy their own plant beds. If they still play ball with the Trust, their barns are burned. When the Trust strikes back, 2,000 armed growers march into Bardsville, seize the telephone and telegraph offices, lock up police and firemen, burn the brand-new million-dollar Trust warehouses...
...author and a landscape of the times. With sweeping strokes he brings to life the intellectual atmosphere in which each of these great masterpieces was produced, showing the essential huntanity of each work as well as its significance. The startling contrast between each of these six documents does not destroy the unity of Dean Sperry's study, but strengthens his basic theme, the persistence of the Christian Ideal in radically different interpretations...
...equality. Behind almost every incident lies calculated Communist propaganda. Dr. Mamlock's removal from his clinic and his brutal treatment are minor themes which bind together a bitter denunciation of Nazi methods. Definitely meant for foreign consumption and as a guide to Communist technique, the picture is aimed to destroy the theory that Communists set the Reichstag fire and opposed the welfare of Germany. The moviegoer should note these pointed thrusts of propaganda, but pay greater attention to the artistic merits of the picture which places it among the best foreign importations of the year...
...Authorities last night apprehended two men who had in their possession a swing arrangement of Rubenstein's "Melody in F." Police say that the men failed in an attempt to destroy the evidence, and it will be used against them when they appear before the court next Tuesday. It is believed that the men are members of the gang headed by the notorious czar of bootleg swing, Benny (Hot-Fingers) Goodman...
...attention to those Coughlin claquers who are barking at you and threatening to destroy your circulation. I shall undertake personally to get you a dozen or more new subscribers on the strength of your courageous stand against demagogues of Coughlin's sanctimonious type. Others will do the same...