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...charges that he had conspired with two attaches of the Japanese Embassy to sell U. S. Navy secrets (TIME, July 27 et seq.), bibulous onetime Lieut. Commander John Semer ("Dodo") Farnsworth last fortnight pleaded nolo contendere, throwing himself on the court's mercy. Few days later he tried vainly to change his plea. Last week, grey and broken at 43, the temperamental Annapolis graduate who was cashiered from the Navy ten years ago appeared in court, paled as he heard the return he would have to make for the $20,000 he was paid to betray his country...
Apart from the fact that they all freely said they had tried to have Dictator Joseph Stalin killed, the most striking feature of the Second Moscow Old Bolsheviks Trial (TIME, Feb. 8 et ante) was the agreement of the prisoners that they had also done their best to rid Russia of darkling, high-powered Grigoriy Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze...
Thus does Marching Song deal with a sit-down strike in an automobile town called Brimmerton. As will be evident from the partial inventory above of its dramatic materials, it is not a hastily concocted case history of the General Motors strike in Flint (TIME, Jan. 11 et seq.). It is a proletarian fairy tale in unrelieved black & white. Viewed from within its own wonderland it is vivid enough to enlist sympathy for the good fairies in their struggles against the hobgoblins. The play's nightmarish atmosphere is enhanced by Howard Bay's vast, sombre setting which represents...
...Million Unit Fellowship is designed to lead Methodists toward a better social order, "a Christian way" between Fascism and Communism. At this concept Dr. Eli Stanley Jones, perhaps the world's greatest Methodist and the leader of the National Preaching Mission last autumn (TIME, Sept. 28 et seq.). has been hammering away in recent speeches up & down the land. Last week to the aid of Dr. Jones and the Fellowship went one of the nation's most pious and eminent non-Methodists, John D. Rockefeller Jr., who spoke to Methodists in Fellowship assembled on a nation-wide radio...
...BOYS IN THE BACK ROOM-Jules Romains-McBrlde ($2). Long-winded Novelist Romains takes time off from his big work-in-progress (Men of Good Will, TIME, July 13 et ante) to write this rather painfully jolly interlude about some bright young Parisian pals who loved to drink and play intricate practical jokes...