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...Selfish Government." Aside from the fact that Bombay police bruised and bashed some 500 non-violent Gandhites, the week in India was unexciting. Approached in his jail near Poona by an emissary of James Ramsay MacDonald with terms of compromise, St. Gandhi cocked his bird-like head and listened. Rejecting the terms (secret) he denounced "the selfishness of the British Government," demanded as the first and minimum price of peace complete self-rule for India...
Shadow of the Law (Paramount). This crook story might have been made into almost any kind of cinema?absolute nonsense, or a fair program piece, or, as has happened, into highly successful and entertaining melodrama. Between the time when Powell kills a man accidentally, and goes to. jail for life for a murder he has not committed?a murder which can be explained only by the woman who was in the room when it happened and who refuses to give her testimony?through Powell's prison life, his escape, the new career he makes for himself, the shadow...
Sentenced. Ralph ("Bottles") Capone, brother of Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone; to three years in the Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary; for income tax fraud. Also to one year in the Cook County Jail and a $10,000 fine; for misdemeanors...
Catholic Italy is not like Catholic Malta, whence last week Pope Pius XI received a sharp rebuff. In Milan one Eugenio Bassani, shopkeeper, recently spoke his mind. Last week he was convicted of "speaking ill of the Pope," was fined 1,000 lira ($52.39), sentenced to six months in jail...
...Oscar Hammerstein, a woman once presented at four European regal courts, was found guilty of vagabondage in a Manhattan police court. A detective, whose testimony was substantiated by three patrolmen, said that she had accepted $30 from him in a Manhattan hotel. Following a sentence of one day in jail, her inimical stepson Producer Arthur Hammerstein offered her $50 to be "decent" and clubwomen began raising a fund to combat the "double standard'' in prostitution cases...