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...nation's greatest city with such honesty and vision in the last four years that, although he rode into office on the wave of a reform movement combined with a split in the Democratic ticket, it now appears that the strongest combine of bosses, Far- of the nation, Flynn of the Bronx Democracy, and the Tammany Tiger will not be able to root him out of office with their compromise candidate for mayor, Jeremiah Mahoney...
...Hyde Park, the President toured his well-grown fields in the small car which he drives himself, attended church, chose Dutchess County field stone for a new post office at Poughkeepsie. Most interesting visitor of the weekend was Bronx Democratic Leader and New York Secretary of State Edward J. Flynn. Correspondents guessed that Leader Flynn was trying to line up Presidential aid for Judge Jeremiah T. Mahoney in New York's mayoralty fight...
...Tammany has one greater difficulty: if it does not dominate the politics of the other boroughs, it will be dominated by them. The Democratic boss of The Bronx is Edward J. Flynn, an oldtime henchman of Jim Farley and onetime Secretary of State in Governor Franklin Roosevelt's State cabinet. He and Boss Kelly of Brooklyn, Boss Sheridan of Queens and Boss Fetherston of Richmond agreed on a ticket. When Tammany met it was split into at least three factions and Leader Dooling, ill abed and acting by proxy, was in danger of being unable to name...
...love of dreamy Julia Ashton (Kay Francis) is an aviator who disappears at sea. That loss she mourns until she meets and marries Colonel John Wister (Ian Hunter), who takes her back to his small British Army post in central Arabia. Second in command is Captain Denny Roark (Errol Flynn) for whom, as cinemaddicts will easily anticipate, she burns at first sight. Only satisfactory way out is for the noble colonel to fly away on an Army mission and dutifully disappear in the desert...
...painfully trite a triangle, Another Dawn'?, cast coolly do their theatrical best. Ian Hunter, in what is apparently an air-conditioned oasis, is properly stoic. A raging sirocco does not discourage Miss Francis from exhibiting her usual sweeping evening gowns and Grecian neckline. Typical shot: Errol Flynn athletically clearing some dunes of a large number of hostile Bedouins. You Can't Beat Love (RKO). Only effective method of waking up Lawyer Jimmy Hughes (Preston Foster) in the morning is for his browbeaten butler Jasper (Herbert Mundin) loudly to dare him to get out of bed. Once...