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...Tientsin, consternation reigned in Nanking, capital of the Chinese Government of Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek and Premier Wang Ching-wei who was recently winged by a would-be Chinese assassin (TIME, Nov. 11). Mr. Wang, hospitalized at Shanghai, had recovered sufficiently to set out for Nanking. On the way a plot to assassinate him was discovered. He abruptly resigned last week as Premier, hoping that Chinese patriots who have called him "pro-Japanese" will now let him alone...
...chief pleasure at the University this week was in thinking of the good time we will doubtless have next Saturday at "Barbary Coast." For both pictures on the Square this time are pretty bad. We have plot G-63, served up with slight variations; plus comedy situation. Series X-12, in "Hands Across the Table," with Carole Lombard (who is getting old and looks it) and Fred Mac Murray, who is the one and only bright spot. Plot 48-R (the crusty old dame who turns out to have a heart of gold) bobs up again under the title "Three...
...this is about what it is, though it's not particularly hilarious, nor very romantic. Silly would be a better word. Needless to say, she does not marry for money, but for love--you can see that coming the very beginning, particularly if you know this plot, which you almost certainly do. Yes, you've seen it all before, and it's not very well done this time. The variation here is that the sympathetic friend (who really loves her, of course), is a cripple, which adds sentiment. The picture has its bright moments, however...
...Dawson-Scott supplied the ghoulish plot in a novel named The Haunting. Scene is a village in Cornwall where Gale and his young sailor brother Pascoe quarrel over a hoard of gold hidden in an ancient chest. The beginning is gay with folk tunes. Villagers dance in the market place. Thereafter gloom prevails. Gale, for whom Leginska named her opera, murders his brother, hides the body in a cave near the sea, never succeeds in escaping its ghost...
Director Geiger thrilled the city by suggesting a mass murder plot. Likeliest suspect was a Chicago chef who in 1912, at a banquet for Cardinal Mundelein, put arsenic in the soup of 1,000 guests, killed several, sickened hundreds. Indicted for murder, the chef escaped, has since been accused of two other mass poisonings by arsenic. A New York chemist made San Francisco's mystery more exciting by reporting that he had found similar mixtures of arsenic and fluoride in baking soda two years ago. Director Geiger set out to investigate the cases of 30 San Franciscans...