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...rapiers in Tokyo, cocky little Japanese Foreign Minister Koko Hirota and gruff, sad-eyed Soviet Ambassador Konstantin Yurenev were so jangle-nerved last week that each was glad to throw the issue at stake to his native Press, which promptly charged the other's Government with a "Gigantic Plot...
Meanwhile Manchukuan troops under Japanese officers swooped out along the lines of C. E. R., arresting 46 station agents and engineers. They were taken to Harbin and jailed on the pretext that a plot had been discovered to assassinate hollow-eyed Emperor Kang Teh. According to the Japanese, bandit raids on C. E. R. have been financed by Soviet agents from the Red Army base at Khabarovsk. Finally last week the Imperial Japanese Army propaganda bureau in Tokyo issued what Russians interpreted as a threat that Japan means eventually to seize C. E. R. without paying Moscow so much...
...Clarence Budington Kelland had finished only the first chapter, offered suggestions to make the part more to his taste. When the story was finished Producer Lloyd was amazed to find that none of the antics which his private staff of "gagmen" usually arrange for him seemed to fit the plot. He finally accepted the advice of his director, Sam Taylor, to make the picture without his customary comedy inventions. Less dependent on its star than previous Lloyd products but almost equally hilarious. The Cat's Paw should win the plaudits of the Legion of Decency without boring its opponents...
...irony was heightened when bustling Dr. Goebbels seized charge of preparations for Old Paul's funeral, shushed his son Col. Oscar von Hindenburg who wished the burial to take place in the family plot at Neudeck in East Prussia, and announced the von Hindenburg bones will lie in the Field Marshal's Tower of the huge, ugly, fortress-like memorial at Tannenberg. "Men only will be permitted to attend the funeral service," announced Dr. Goebbels. Correspondents were given privately to understand that it would be inappropriate for a German hero's obsequies to be marred by wailing women...
...stories. The anecdote is interesting apart from the narration so that it would secure attention if it were told over the dinner-table; and that seems to me a very great merit indeed. ... I have little doubt that Chekhov would have written stories with an ingenious, original and striking plot if he had been able to think of them." But Maugham gives Chekhov his due: "I do not know that anyone . . . has so poignantly been able to represent spirit communing with spirit. It is this that makes one feel that Maupassant, in comparison, is obvious and vulgar...