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There is nothing particularly original about Front Page Woman. Nonetheless, brightly written, eminently well played and directed for comedy values by Michael Curtiz, it is distinctly better than average entertainment. Good shot: Ellen Garfield trying to explain to her city editor that her flash on the outcome of the trial was incorrect...
...Fourth of July at the State Department, plodding Secretary Cordell Hull said that he had received a flash from the U. S. acting Chargé d'Affaires at Addis Ababa giving the gist of the Emperor's appeal but that the U. S. Government obviously could not act before the full five-page text of His Imperial Majesty's communication was received. Next afternoon President Roosevelt, having glanced at the flash, delivered what admiring Idaho Senator Pope later called "a masterpiece of diplomacy." Around 4 p. m. correspondents found the President in one of his most elated...
Baer lost the fifth round on a foul, the sixth on points. With a rare flash of his old savage form he rocked Braddock with a right to the jaw in the seventh. Then in the eighth round Braddock sent a harmless blow to Baer's chin. And, again going comic, Baer electrified the crowd by staggering about in a circle, then straightening up with a great laugh and repulsing the hopeful challenger...
...Howey, attracted by William Randolph Hearst's isolationist policy concerning the U. S., went over to the Herald & Examiner as managing editor. On the Herex city desk was a battery of telephones, one painted white. When the white one rang, a desk editor seized it in a flash. It was a private wire from a police department switchboard, whose operators were on Howey's secret payroll. Detectives never could understand why they nearly always found Herex newshawks at a crime scene before them...
...captaincy for next year was finally decided with the election of Milt Green. The Newton flash took firsts in three events at Yale and will be the only Harvard athlete to compete in more than one event in England, being entered in both hurdle events and the broad jump...