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...then the big, boisterous States of the Australian Commonwealth think for themselves. Two years ago New South Wales tried to repudiate the interest on its State debt (TIME, April 6, 1931 et seq.). The Crown-appointed Governor finally forced the Premier, tall, square-jawed John Thomas Lang, out of office (TIME, May 23). Last week the Commonwealth's biggest and rawest state, Western Australia, voted to secede from the Commonwealth...
This is the way Director Fritz Lang starts a picture which makes a paranoiac with a penchant for killing small girls one of the most unforgettable cinema villains of the year. After a look at the murderer, you are shown the effect which a series of his crimes has had upon the city where he lives. Tipplers in beer gardens suspect each other of being monsters. An elderly gentleman who tells an urchin what time it is is nearly mobbed. The police make a dragnet around the town, question hundreds of suspects, arrive at no conclusions. Finally the outlaws...
Brilliant, morbid and exciting, M is based on the Düsseldorf child murders of 1929 (the perpetrator of which, Butcher Kuerten, was executed). It was written, like most of Director Lang's productions, by his wife. Thea von Harbou. It is all in German, with fairly adequate English subtitles superimposed. Peter Lorre distinguishes himself in a magnificent cast by his haunting performance as the murderer. Good shot: the pudgy young man after seeing himself described as a maniac, peering into a mirror and stretching his mouth to see if he looks crazy...
...Pontiac Motor Car hour Engineer William Shearer is the juggler who balances the comical dialog of Stoopnagle & Budd with a big mixed chorus; makes wee Jeannie Lang, a whispering soprano, sound as effective as William O'Neal, a full-blown tenor...
...Lang-True Animal Stories. Advertising Junket, this program lately completed a contest in which the maximum number of three-letter words was to be formed from "Junket Works Magic With Milk." Prizes: Scotch terrier or $50, wire-haired terrier or $35, angora kitten or $25, white canary or $10, pair of guppies (fish), 50 white china elephants. An animal roars at the beginning of the program. There is a secret society, with pin, called the H. A. H. (Happy Animal Helpers...