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...course, if you don't give us our due meed of praise in your valuable publication I shall be forced to perform a painful duty when next 1 visit your seaport: that is to shoot you so full of holes they can sift baled hay through...
...emergency organization must put aside chicken-heartedness, take financial risks, forget about profits and boldly advance its credit on security which, at the moment, looks inferior. Ordinary commercial banking rules must go by the board, it is argued, if R. F. C. is to perform the task the administration...
...Devil Passes? Having already been privileged to watch a jolly, wobble-headed God perform in the Theatre Guild's He this season, and having chosen to neglect Him after a brief run, Manhattan theatregoers may now witness the Devil walking the earth like a natural man. The Old Harry in the latest offering of Playwright Benn W. Levy (Springtime for Henry, Mrs. Moonlight} is none other than matinee idolized Basil Rathbone. Christened facetiously Rev. Nicholas Lucy, Mr. Rathbone has been sent among mortals by Playwright Levy to tempt them, and in so tempting to demonstrate that the practice of virtue...
...Taxi, Cagney's impudent Irish face is first seen sticking out from behind a steering wheel, spouting Yiddish at a customer. Leader of an insurgent group of cabdrivers who resent the methods of a racketeering corporation, Cagney has ample chance to perform his specialty?a short right-hand punch to the side of the jaw. He threatens his girl (Loretta Young) almost every time he sees her, takes a poke at the clerk from whom they get a marriage license. Right after the marriage, Cagney sets out to avenge a murder committed by the head racketeer of the taxi corporation...
...millions of owners it is their most beautiful and costly possession. Its esthetic appeal is at once its weakness and its strength, for the potential owner who need not buy for necessity must be made to buy for pleasure. If he bought enough, the automobile industry might again perform its magic trick, might pull Prosperity out of Depression...