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...Charles's pretty cousin (Elissa Landi) has mysteriously disappeared, Nick Charles finds him in a cabaret but he has barely time to drink his health before the scapegrace staggers out to be murdered. Detective Charles then settles down to drink and work in earnest. His evening reaches its peak when, in a room containing half a dozen dangerous characters and a police aide (Sam Levene), the lights suddenly go off and shooting starts. Insuperably nonchalant Detective Charles utilizes this moment for a quick drink...
Sirs: In a year which saw man's greed, stupidity, inhumanity, soar to unprecedented heights, one must look to physical rather than intellectual qualifications to define the Man of the Year. Peak product of the youngest race an symbol of its ascendancy-inevitable Jesse Owens...
George J. Peak, Winchester, Ill. horse breeder: "A horse is like a child. He will take advantage of a person who handles him in an uncertain manner. You can control him better if you are unafraid." Conceding the point for domestic creatures, Frank ("Bring 'Em Back Alive") Buck declared: "As a rule, 'man-smell' will make a wild animal run as fast...
Thowing precedent off the lot, Korda begins his version of Rembrandt with the painter at the peak of popularity and wealth and stops the cameras while the hero still lives and chuckles. The first axe to fall on Rambrandt's life is the death of his loved wife, Saskia, followed shortly by the failure of the painting "The Night Watch" to please the vain guardsmen. Rembrandt skids down hill, his style goes out of favor and his house-keeper-mistress (Gertrude Lawrence) becomes a shrew. He finds a few short years of peace and success with the adoring Hendrickje Stoffels...
...Peak circulation of the Chatterbox annual came in 1920 when 148,000 copies went to British girls & boys, 12,000 to children in America and the Dominions. Last year the monthly issues were discontinued, but the Chatterbox annual is still printed like a bound volume of a magazine, so that the instalments of serial stories are scattered piecemeal throughout the book. For Christmas 1936, Dean & Son have printed 30,000 copies of Chatterbox. In keeping with the times it features streamlined trains and aviation, but still carries old-fashioned school & cricket stories...