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...Hague the Commissioner ordered a bookseller to remove a picture of Queen Wilhelmina from his window. The bookseller complied, replaced the picture with a full-length photograph of Hitler. Around the Fuhrer's photograph he arranged a display of copies of a book by the famed Dutch swimming coach, Frau Braun. Title: How Do I Learn to Swim...
...refuse to concede the last touchdown to the Cambridge eleven until I see the full-length, four-bell, three-dimensional, technicolor movies of the game," was the terse post-game comment of high-flying King Brewster, captain of the Eli periodical outfit...
When Manhattan's Palace Theater (most famed two-a-day house in the U.S.) started to show pictures in 1932, U. S. vaudeville was through. Last week, vaudeville got its first full-length biography, by Feature Writer Douglas Gilbert of the New York World-Telegram. His book, American Vaudeville, Its Life and Times -though sometimes more of a catalogue than a history, gives a detailed account of the variety show from its rough beer-hall days through its great era when Italian Singer Tony Pastor purified it, to its death. It is a must book for rememberers of such...
...book about how it all happened. Titled I Saw France Fall, it was published this week. Because he had a first-row seat on the Flanders and Lorraine Fronts for nine months, because he happens to have an extraordinary sense of scene and because his book is the first full-length account of how France's 33rd invasion looked to a front soldier, I Saw France Fall is a document of first importance...
Last fortnight in Philadelphia, the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas upheld an order of the Pennsylvania State Board of Censors banning a revised version of the MARCH OF TIME'S first full-length feature, a story of how the U. S. entered and fought World War I called The Ramparts We Watch (TIME, July 29). Reason: since The Ramparts was approved by Mrs. Edna Carroll and her assistant censors in early August, MOT had inserted 900 feet from Baptism of Fire, the Nazis' record of their Polish Blitzkrieg...