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...that fact and moved to forestall it by ordering the arrest of all army officers whose loyalty to the Republic is in doubt. Chief prisoner was General Manuel Goded. After the fall of the monarchy two years ago General Goded was in high Republican favor for having started a plot to oust Dictator Primo de Rivera in 1929, for having told King Alfonso that his troops would no longer fight for him. Later General Goded changed his mind, was placed on the retired list. Just to be sure, he was exiled last week to the Canary Islands...
Many a Manhattan architect out of a job sat down at his drawing board last month to plot a setting for legal beer. His incentive was a contest of the Architects' Emergency Committee. Last week the designs for taprooms, cafes and beer gardens were hung in Manhattan's Industrial Mart, an idea showroom for the hotel & restaurant trade. One Peter Copeland, an architect who has not paid his rent in two months, won the first prize for both cafes and taprooms. His cafe had a modernistic oval bar in blue and white. One Kate Hall won first prize...
...yapping at President de Valera's heels are the irreconcilables of the Irish Republican Army. They refuse to vote for deputies to the Dail: they call the 1921 treaty with Britain "the treaty of surrender." Their young men. of whom Eamon de Valera was once one. drill and plot the new day of Revolution, cursing de Valera for his caution. Last week he told them that with the abolition of the oath "a new situation has been created,'' opening the Oireachtas "to all sections of the population, without their having to forswear any opinions they might hold...
...over to police the No. 1 bandit of the city. This is the third successive Warner Brothers picture to be distinguished by lavatory scenes (the other two were Baby Face and Central Airport. A happy thought was the teaming of tough, noisy Alice White with tough, noisy Cagney. Without plot restrictions, it is doubtful who would have won the bout...
...picture would have been much better if it had been more explicit about how its most interesting personage reaches this sad predicament. A plot which is more of an insinuation than a narrative implies that the soul of Bavian's dead mistress, a lady sadist executed for strangling three of her lovers, comes back to inhabit temporarily the body of a pure young heiress (Carole Lombard) who consults Bavian to get news of her dead twin brother. The heiress faints during a seance; when she wakes up, her eyes have a fiendish glitter. She entices Bavian aboard her yacht...