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...takes place under one roof. Director Edgar Selwyn, who thinks writers for the cinemas deserve more credit than directors, had a less vivid mob to handle than the one in American Madness, but he disposed them so ably about the corridors and offices of the Dwight Building that its interior seems more densely populated and lively than that of most real edifices of comparable size. Typical shot: Banker Dwight guzzling champagne with his secretary's stenographer while artfully persuading her to take a trip on his yacht...
Career: After a public school education he was taken to Washington by his father Charles Frederick Crisp. Confederate veteran and Georgia Representative (1883-96), who got him, aged 19, a clerkship in the Interior Department. When his father was chosen Speaker (1891), he got a job as House parliamentarian -experting on rules, practices and precedents. On the side he studied law, was admitted to the Georgia bar in 1895. In 1896 his father died and he, aged 26, was elected to serve out his father's unexpired term. Back in Americus, Ga. he practiced law, served as judge...
Satevepost was wrong, TIME right. Satevepost's "von Schleicher" is General Wilhelm Groener, onetime Minister of Defense and Interior, and vice versa...
...window glass and chinaware, barbed wire and cutlery, fox traps, shotguns, steel work and woolen goods, out of Liverpool steamed S. S. Pennyworth (Dalgliesh Line) for the three-month port of Churchill on Hudson Bay. It was a test cargo, first shipment of goods into Canada's upper interior through the trade mouth that she opened last year to disgorge her Saskatchewan. Alberta and Manitoba wheat to European markets (TIME, Sept. 14). Last year's two test shipments of wheat out of Churchill, totaling 500,000 bushels, were wholly successful. The S. S. Farnsworth, first test ship, passing...
...Italo Balbo, who looks enough like Dino Grandi to be his twin, is Minister of Air. Arpinati is Under Secretary of the Interior...