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...Eric Phipps, the British Ambassador in Berlin, called on Adolf Hitler three weeks ago. There followed one of those remarkable scenes in which the Realmleader, as Napoleon occasionally used to do, flies into a tremendous passion, smiting his desk and screaming. Effective, this answered, with a negative more convincing than a calm man could have uttered, Sir Eric's question on behalf of His Majesty's Government as to whether Germany would care to enter an international air armament reduction treaty...
...gentleman he found himself unable to believe anything so unflattering to his gentlemen friends and the gentlemen friends of Ambassador Robert Worth Bingham in the London Government. Paradoxically, able Ambassador Breckinridge Long has been getting much of his cold dope from British Ambassador Eric Drummond, now in Rome after 14 years as Secretary General of the League of Nations. It was Sir Eric who handed over the table to Il Duce last week one of the hardest wallops Geneva has yet received...
John Howard Eric '37, secretary of the Glee Club, will play the lead role. The other chief male parts in the production will be taken by David P. McAllester '38, John H. Burns '37, and John L. Bishop...
...affable and alcoholic parasite who sponges a living in the family of Nat Miller, smalltown newspaper publisher. Nat Miller is played by Lionel Barrymore whose part, though written down considerably from the play, is still an important one and who gets second billing. The real lead (Richard) is Eric Linden, who gets no special billing at all, worked in the picture as a free lance, and was much rejoiced to get a contract...
...Agreeably sung by Lily Pons are four songs by Jerome Kern, including a waltz called I Dream Too Much, Little Jockey on the Carrousel and I've Got Love which the diva has described as a " 'ot song, very 'ot." The picture also introduces blandly comic Eric Blore (Top Haf) and an amiable seal. Good shot: Blore & seal gazing reproachfully at Miss Pons, who has stolen the seal's breakfast fish, cooked it for her husband...