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...that hardy, hairy crew who prowl for Soviet glory north of Russia's long Arctic coast line, hardiest and hairiest is jungle-bearded Otto Tulyevich Schmidt, chief editor of the Soviet Encyclopedia, professor of hydrology, chemistry and Arctic science. Two years ago the middle-aged professor led the icebreaker Sibirya-kov to a great Soviet feat: first navigation of the "northeast passage" from Archangel to Vladivostok in one year. Last August he tried it again with the icebreaker Chelyuskin, setting out this time from Murmansk, through the empty wastes of the Barents and Kara Seas. In September...
...rare occasion when one can go to a movie and emit unrestrained guffaws for an hour and a half. "The Women in His Life" gives you this opportunity. And you can thank that superb actor Otto Kruger, who was considered a shot in the legitimate theatre. He bounds boisterously about the sets as though he were a drunken arthropod. His eyes roll diabolically, his cheeks puff, his ears crackle when he is aroused. What an actor...
...Otto Kruger, as a talented criminal lawyer, has numerous affairs with women, always, however, with an indifferent attitude, for he still loves his wife who had left him many years before. A young girl comes to his office to ask him to defend her father, being tried for the murder of her step-mother. "He's innocent. Step-mother ran around lots, but pa did not mind. . . . He's an old and innocent man." When Otto Kruger sees the picture of the lady in question, he gurgles rudely, and then orders the girl and his junior partner to leave...
...popping of flashlights and a grinding of sound cameras that made it look like a Hollywood opening. Totally unable to see what the museum had to show, the guests milled slowly up & down stairs and looked at one another. Besides Soviet Ambassador Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky, they included: Mary Pickford, Otto H. Kahn, Dolores Del Rio, Leopold Stokowski, Henry Seidel Canby, Lord Duveen, Frank Sullivan, Katharine Hepburn, the young ladies of the Ballet Russe, Charles A. Lindbergh and most of the Rockefellers. Most critics went back next morning for a quieter look at the best exhibition of stage decor and costume...
...Elected a director of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Chairman Paul D. Cravath promptly put Director Sarnoff on the executive committee to ponder the Met's problems along with Otto Kahn, Myron Charles Taylor and Mrs. August Belmont...