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...modern Kubla Khan, John D. Rockefeller Jr. in 1930 a cluster of skyscrapers decreed. Never had such a cluster been decreed before. Between elegant Fifth Avenue and shoddy Sixth in the next nine years, 14 slab-sided tombstones uprose. Last week, wearing a pair of workman's white gloves, Mr. Rockefeller drove a silver rivet into the 14th and final building, to symbolize the completion of his $100,000,000 monument...
Otherwise, Bette Davis, except in her scenes with Francis Bacon, ably acted by Donald Crisp, dominates the picture as singlehandedly as Elizabeth dominated England. For though slow-smiling, boyish Errol Flynn in a pair of seven-league boots will flutter more hearts than the Queen's, dramatically he leaves the impression that, in chopping off his head, Elizabeth is performing one of the more sensible acts of her reign...
Whether or not the minuscule Communist Party (100,000 accredited members) was ever the menace Red-baiters deemed it, last week it appeared to be in rout,* two leaders reported fleeing to Mexico, another pair too ill to be questioned, the Communist New Masses in danger of folding because of lack of funds, newsstands reporting the Daily Worker hard to sell. Only regret of many U. S. citizens was Browder's prosecution on a seemingly minor offense, thus permitting cries of persecution from the Left...
...rather that the Japanese are desperate than that they are smart. They might lose their silk market forever. Last week in Wilmington, Del., Du Font's sheeny, much-publicized nylon hosiery went on sale at $1.15, $1.25, $1.35 (for different gauges), sold quickly when salesgirls claimed that one pair of them would outwear four of silk, that they would dry in ten minutes when washed. As material for full-fashioned hose a previous silk substitute, rayon, was a lame competitor to silk but nylon and its brother synthetics now in prospect may be another story. For silk...
...people of this country, a false and dangerous sense of security will be created. Mr. Chester and Mr. Weir would do the U.S. a great service by giving attention to piloting their own corporations through the troubled days that lie ahead, and ceasing their elumsy attempts to fit a pair of rose-colored glasses to the noses of the American people...