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...great deal to do with turning up the spies was ex-G-Man Leon G. Turrou, who resigned last summer. 15 minutes later contracted to write a newspaper series (never published) on the spy plot. Seamy-faced Mr. Turrou last week told the jury how he spied on the spies. Defense Attorney George C. Dix asked Mr. Turrou whether he had inquired of Dr. Griebl: "How much will it be worth to you not to be sentenced to prison as a German...
...Learned Elders of Zion-in a suit brought and won by the Swiss Jewish Community against two booksellers (TIME, Nov. 12, 1934). This notorious work, first published in Russia 33 years ago and circulated more or less surreptitiously throughout the western world since then, purported to expose a Jewish plot to destroy Christian civilization, dominate the earth. The Protocols, as the Swiss court found, have been repeatedly proved a fraud...
...Boys from Syracuse" is a gay and tuneful production, and though the plot, as in Plautus' time, is somewhat innocuous, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart have poured so much of the soul of modern melody into the show that their position as the foremost song writing team of musical comedy cannot be questioned; "Falling in Love," "Shortest Day in the Year," and especially "This Can't Be Love" are three of the best tunes to have appeared in many months, and the cast renders them to perfection...
...Crowe, 69, famed ex-train robber, kidnapper and jewel thief; of heart disease; in Manhattan. In 1900 Crowe helped kidnap 15-year-old Edward Aloysius Cudahy Jr. (now president of Cudahy Packing Co.) in Omaha, Neb. When he was apprehended five years later, he charged Cudahy with engineering the plot himself. The jury acquitted him. In 1929 the Bertillon Bureau of the Buffalo police checked the fingerprints of a suicide, identified him as Crowe. Same day Pat Crowe, then reformed, walked vehemently into Manhattan's police headquarters to deny his death...
Although based on an indifferent, disjointed Fannie Hurst plot, which would normally dawdle listlessly from one episode to another, "Four Daughters" is a fine, almost a great picture. This is primarily because it uses brilliantly these disconnected incidents and scenes to create the indefinable and intangible something commonly called "mood": here a sentimental, nostalgic mood comprehensive enough to include both joy and sorrow. This is also because it includes unusually moving and sympathetic performances from all of the principals, most of whom are newcomers to featured parts. Particularly outstanding is John Garfield's portrayal of the self-pitying, cynical Mickey...