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...scene of "Inspector Charlie Chan" is a luxurious hunting lodge on Lake Tahoe: the characters: a famous diva, her four ex-husbands, her flance, and Mr. Chan. Two mysteries appear and two mysteries are solved, to the satisfactory entertainment of all, but Mr. Harrigan, as the Chinese detective, is pretty consistently embarrassed by his verbal luggage, and the diva's Yale-dictory is more strained than even a diva's valedictory should be. With these reservations, however. Charlie Chan is a recommended evening, a point which might handily be proved if it were not for the management's express injunction...
...Taishan, in Shantung. Last week his smiling face emerged Cheshire Cat-like again from the mists of Chinese politics. Presumably as a reward for quitting his "private war" against the Japanese, General Chiang last week offered him a choice of three big jobs in the Nanking Government: 1) Inspector General of the Army, 2) Commissioner of Forestation and Colonization for the Northwest or 3) Improvement Commissioner for the Yellow River, which burst its dykes in July, and last week was still boiling. Observers expected Feng, licking his chops over this choice of plums, to choose the job of Inspector General...
...worked at Chicago's Hull House, Manhattan's Henry Street Settlement, traveled abroad, became an out & out Socialist. She married a Polish count, bore him two children, took the name of Mrs. Florence Kelley after her divorce. She served four years as Illinois' first factory inspector. She helped to found the National Consumers' League, was its longtime secretary. Because her heart bled for overworked salesgirls, she started the "Shop Early For Christmas" movement in the early 1900's. She heard of a youngster who worked 17 hours a day during the Christmas rush, trotting packages...
...daughter of Oklahoma's Senator "Blind Tom Gore, was appointed director of air regulation; Carroll J. Cone of Arkansas was appointed director of aeronautical development. Rex Martin, onetime secretary to Illinois' Representative Keller, is new director of airways; John H. Geisse of Madison, Wis. is supervising aeronautics inspector. Old-time Mail Pilot James Clark Edgerton was appointed Mr. Mitchell's executive assistant for aeronautics...
...STRANGE CASE OF PETER THE LETT -Georges Simenon-Covici, Friede ($2). Inspector Maigret, mystified by duplex identity, spurred by sorrow, exhibits super-human activity, and bags...