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...Lambert Co. (Listerine) anticipated when it engaged her last autumn (TIME, Nov. 12), Farrar proved to be no ordinary storyteller. Her first broadcast was for the holiday matinee of Hansel und Gretel. But instead of lingering over a plot which every one knows, she chatted informally about the 52-year-old Opera House, candidly admitted that it was a year younger than...
...regime." Youthful Russia has always been touted as solidly Bolshevik, solidly Stalinist. Last week the 14 accused at Leningrad were all young men in their 20's and 30's, Russians who have grown to manhood under the Red flag. They were accused broadly of a major plot to assassinate not only "Dear Friend Sergei" but the chief leaders of the Government, including Stalin. If such young men, all but one members of the Party at the time of their arrest, think Stalin should be assassinated, the inference of Red disillusionment is potent...
Although it has the usual corps of continental villains, replete with monocles, saber scars, and slouch hats, "I Am a Thief," the mystery melodrama at the Fenway, is fairly successful. The plot, which involves a clever jewelry theft, may be old, but it works, to the complete mystification of the audience. Mary Aster, as the heroine torn between two loyalties, manages to look dyspeptically emotional, and Ricardo Cortez, the suave and charming cad, smiles toothily but shrewdly at his rather capable supporting cast. The photography is frequently excellent, and portrays the swift passage of the Istanbul Express across Europe with...
...same thing happened in the case of my uncle the Grand Duke Sergei.? The police very quickly discovered there was no local plot and only the assassin was executed. There was no imprisonment of others. The law courts of Russia in those days were extremely just and there was very little corruption...
...Jenny, soft and sweet, an expert at shoplifting marries stiff-necked Berkely Howard, a rum-runner. The idyll of their love is broken off when revenue officers shoot Berkely. Dottie is the viciously respectable member of the family. She marries a Cannel mill-worker, over steps herself in a plot to regain favor with the paternal grandmother who had disowned her father. The scene in which the cumulative effect of her underhandedness comes back on her disastrously is one-of the fine things in the book. Joel is condemned to live with Grandmother Harris. She burns his Shakespeare, she heats...