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Although Mussolini's visit was to close this week with a pair of full-length broadcasts to the world by himself and Hitler, significance of the big show was well charted in advance. The mere fact that II Duce and Der Führer were laying their heads together had cooled off the recent hot British and French determination to browbeat Italy on the Mediterranean "piracy" issue (TIME, Sept. 27). Masked by the eruption of news from Berlin last week, there met in Paris quietly a conference of Italian, French and British naval experts-with Russia pointedly excluded. According...
...common touch of producing interminable series of Our Gang pictures, in which succeeding generations of fat, freckled, good, bad, pretty and colored children were featured. Mr. Roach made a fortune out of these films but this spring he put his name on a different kind of comedy, a full-length sophisticated picture. It was a good one called Topper, starring Constance Bennett, Cary Grant and Roland Young, and Hollywood sat up and admitted that Hal Roach had widened his horizons in a hurry. Laying his head to Dr. Senise's, he proceeded to widen it still further...
...simple reason that evidence for it is scanty and dubious. The grosser physical aspects of it have long been disproved, notably by the classic experiment of Weismann who cut off the tails of generation after generation of mice without stopping the next generation from being born with full-length tails. But a few Lamarckists still insist that imponderables like acquired habits and tendencies can be inherited...
...LIFE OF PAUL GAUGUIN-Robert Burnett-Oxford University Press ($3.50). Run-of-the-mine biography of the irrational businessman-turned-painter whose life W. Somerset Maugham acidly fictionized in The Moon and Sixpence. First full-length biography in English but Pola Gauguin's version (My Father, Paul Gauguin; TIME, Feb. 8) was less detailed, more convincing...
Vogues of 1938 (Walter Wanger) can be chalked up as a minor Hollywood triumph on two counts: 1) it is the most enticing example of Technicolor yet produced; 2) it has apparently found a formula for transforming the fashion show from a boring newsreel short to a full-length revue that both men and women can sit through without squirming. Incidentally it not only glorifies the U. S. girl (its showgirls include such well-known models as Jaeckel's Betty Wyman, Lucky Strike's and Chesterfield's Ida Vollmar) and U. S. fashions but implies that...