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...Austria's late last Emperor, father of Pretender Otto (see above...
Chained (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) ends with a scene on an Argentine cattle ranch where Mike Bradley (Clark Gable), Yale 1926, is living with his divorcee bride, Diane (Joan Crawford). Diane opens a letter from the husband (Otto Kruger) she has just deserted and says to Mike: "Richard has gone to Maine for the summer." Mike Bradley's reply is intended to reveal him as a young man of generous and perceptive sentiments. "That's great," he says. "We'll send him some fancy beef for a barbecue...
...Marinis, to sit at a long elaborate luncheon with 14 Fascist bigwigs. At the same time Il Duce's son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, herded foreign correspondents into the Florentine prefecture, repeated over and over again that there would be no discussion of the restoration of Archduke Otto in Austria. He handed out an official communique. Excerpts...
Seers and oracles studying this jumble of words decided that it meant that the restoration of Otto was a card still a long way up Benito's sleeve, and that Italy was worried about unconfirmed rumors to the effect that the Schuschnigg Government was softening toward the former Social Democrats...
...Wrangel Island, a bleak scrap of land in the Arctic Ocean, 85 miles from the northeast coast of Siberia. There for five long years six Russian meteorologists, their families and assistants, 44 souls all told, have lived in isolation. Last year the freighter Chelyuskin, commanded by hardy, hairy Professor Otto Tulyevich Schmidt, was sent to take the colonists off their icebound island, deposit a new shift of weather observers. The ice pack closed in on the Chelyuskin in September, hugged it all winter, broke it in February. One man was lost but doughty Professor Schmidt transferred the remaining 101 persons...