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Matsuoka, who headed the Japanese delegation that recently walked out of the League Assembly, was threatened with death in New York City a few days ago. Yesterday while on the train on route to Boston, a second assassination plot was revealed when a railway police officer discovered two iron pipes wrapped in a Chinese flag lying across the track. Matsuoka was not informed of this plot until he reached Boston. He was accompanied by four detectives...
...Mohammed; Voltaire, who is philosophizing among the jungle people; and finally the sage of Adelphi Terrace; but none give her a satisfactory answer. Christ, she finds "a good-natured fellow who smiled whenever he could" with a low opinion of women. When she found Voltaire digging in his little plot, the black girl was not hesitant in joining him. Just over a wall Shaw was cultivating in his own hole. An African courtship followed and the heroine settles down with the author of the book. The cultivating continues as before. Shaw places Christ, Mohammed, and Voltaire unmistakably...
...sailor lad in love with demure Johanna Oakley (C. J. Fleming '33). It is Mark's pearls which arouse the avarice of the Fleet Street razor wielder and finally bring about his apparent demise via his own unholy chair. The Playgoer cannot assay to conduct his readers through the plot of a Victorian melodrama, but they may rest assured that there is action and bloodshed galore...
...could overlook the lack of plot in "Ein Nacht im Paradies," if it had any of the qualities that in the past have made German musical-comedy films refreshing and amusing. But the photography is blurred, the parts overacted, and there is not a waltz during the whole performance...
...accompanying feature, "Tonight is Ours" demonstrates again that the team of Colbert and March can cope successfully with most discouraging material. As in the "Son-Daughter" the call of patriotism breaks the thread of true love, but this time the outcome is comic. The plot is, of course, impossible; but that is inconsequential. For the lovelorn there is much gush; for the cynical there is a dash of Noel Coward's sophistication; for the ladies there is always the Colbert wardrobe...