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This scene, funny though it is, is not quite enough to make The Moon's Our Home diverting for the hour and 20 minutes it runs. Following the fashion, critics will doubtless credit Dorothy Parker and Alan Campbell with the many knowing lines and pleasant minor touches, hold the lesser scribblers who worked on the picture responsible for such hackneyed characterizations as Henrietta Crosman as a termagant grandmother whose heart is secretly abrim with kindness and Charles Butterworth in his infinitely tiresome reproduction of an infinitely tired young...
...clot. Consequently a slight cut or bruise may start a fatal hemorrhage, as slight cuts and bruises in an automobile accident did to .his late hemophilic brother (TIME, Aug. 20, 1934). They inherited their blood ailment from their mother, a granddaughter of England's queen Victoria, who doubtless acquired her taint from her German ancestors...
...bill to repeal the Teachers' oath law, comes before the House of Representatives this afternoon and will doubtless come to a vote then. The Senate Committee has already reported the repealer unfavorably by a vote of 6-5 although four committee members did not vote...
Fame & Force. If the Republicans at Cleveland should nominate Idaho's Borah, the G. O. P. would be putting into the field the most famed Senator of this century. Yet in that fame many a voter would doubtless find something old and outmoded, a far-away-&-long-ago quality ill-suited to an up-to-date campaign against the most up-to-date campaigner in Democratic history. For a generation Borah was the great Moral Force of the Senate, the one member who could arise and deal with Right & Wrong in an electric way. Now the conscience...
When England won the Wolfe-Noel Cup it doubtless disappointed the young ladies whom they defeated. It could scarcely have discouraged the non-playing captain of the U. S. team, Eleonora ("Eleo") Sears of Boston. For a full generation she has been the spectacular epitome of an aristocratic U. S. sports woman. For Eleonora Sears, at 52, a trip to England as captain of a squash team, some of whose members were young enough to be her daughters, is no more than an incident in a sporting career which, since it became altogether legendary years ago, can only be viewed...