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...Moscow's Most Remarkable Confession,"was the confessing by all hands last week that Adolf Hitler's apple-cheeked Deputy Nazi Party Leader, Rudolf Hess, also went to Oslo, where Trotsky was of course guarded at all times by Norwegian secret servicemen to prevent his fomenting plots, and conferred with the Great Exile in detail. Red Trotsky & Nazi Hess were supposed to have agreed that, after Stalin had been assassinated, Germany was to get the Ukraine and Japan Eastern Siberia, with the headline-making addition last week that Japan be given the island of Sakhalin from which...
...Like all newsfolk actually working in Moscow and getting their dispatches past the Soviet censor, Mr. Duranty is in a delicate position, all the more delicate because every Soviet official knows that he was constantly in and out of the houses of the prisoners who last week confessed a plot to kill Stalin. But Why Do They Confess? The first quoting interview ever given by J. Stalin to a foreign journalist was obtained by Eugene Lyons, manager of the United Press Moscow Bureau for many years (TIME, Dec. 8, 1930). Now resident in the U. S. and writing widely...
After seeing "One In a Million," which stars Miss Henie, we were puzzled whether the plot resembled her own life history. When questioned she replied, "Well, yes, a little," but then her eyes fell on Henie, senior, and she vigorously shook her gorgeous blonde head, exclaiming "No, not at all." There was a story behind that, we felt sure, but before we could inquire further she was whisked away from the dressing table on which we were sitting, and hurried through the packed throng outside, Garbo-fashion...
Completing the bill is a piece called "Hideaway Girl", which has no right to be amusing, though once in a while it is. The plot, strung together like an united shoestring, concern a girl (Shirley Ross) who pinches pearls at a wedding, eludes the police, picks up a playboy (Robert Cummings) at a filling station, goes to a party at an idealized Seawanbaka yacht club, and winds up, after a good deal of dance and Provencal song, spending the night with him on his toy steamboat. This boat, a fascinating streamlined creature, rather like a cross between the Normandic...
...work in color photography, "God's Country and The Woman" is unexcelled, but the plot, while appropriate to the scenery, is weak. It is the old, old tale of the valiant young girl who for reasons of her own carries on a man's job against tremendous odds, only to break down and become a woman again when the right man comes along...