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...planned to marry on Thanksgiving Day. But last week Otto Van Derck spent what was to have been his wedding day in jail. He had confessed to aiding and abetting two of his B customers in a $54,000 swindle. His confession cracked in time's nick a dazzling plot to gut a life insurance company with $70,000,000 of policies in force...
Beginning Thursday, December 6, the Paramount and Fenway Theaters will present "Gentlemen Are Born," a picture which should be of interest to every college student. Dealing frankly with the difficulties which beset newly-graduated college men, the plot is both thought-provoking and enlightening. Prominent among the members of the cast are Franchot Tone, Jean Muir, Margaret Lindsay, and Ann Dvorak. The companion feature will be "Hell in the Heavens," starring Richard Barthlemess...
Only public figure to support General Butler's story was Commander James Van Zandt of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He said he had known about the plot all along, that he had refused to participate...
...terrorists in Hungary. Insulted to the last degree, Hungarian League Delegate Dr. Tibor Eckhardt challenged Yugoslav Foreign Minister Bogoljub Jeftitch to debate the issue on the spot. Hungary was backed up by Italy, II Duce proposing a general all-European investigation of refugee terrorists, such as the antiFascists who plot in Paris to assassinate him. Before this challenge to get down to cases and face issues, the League officials quiveringly intimated Yugoslavia's charges are "politically certain" to come before next week's extraordinary Council meeting...
...novel La Bataitte, the tale involves a "neutral" British observer who has the run of a Japanese flagship, the Japanese commander's unhesitating use of his dutiful wife to get naval secrets his country needs, his final expiation of this dishonor. Aside from the extravagances of the plot, the pictorial treatment of The Battle is nearly perfect...