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...mechanized Army] specialists, but present conditions do not admit of this leisurely, though ideal, method." By rush methods 100,000 men will be trained in 1933-34. Another shock of the week was a sudden announcement by Tokyo police that they had caught four men red-handed in a plot to assassinate Premier Viscount Makoto Saito. Was there perhaps something strange about this? There was. The four men were caught not last week but last August. News of their plot was hushed by the Government, carefully saved for a purpose. Possibly the Government also had something to do with springing...
...certain Lieut.-Colonel Atilio Cataneo presently confessed himself leader of the plot, but President Justo could not resist the temptation to blame everything on his political rivals, the Radical Personalista Party...
...spirited manifesto to the Argentine populace President Justo's Cabinet declared, "The plot was entirely of a sanguinary, terrorist character . . . most disreputable . . . insidious conspiracy inconceivable insanity . . . most barbarous plot in our political history." Properly impressed, the Argentine Congress met in special session, voted 30 days of a "state of siege." Meanwhile the Ministry of Agriculture serenely forecast for the summer of 1932-33 (December through February) "the greatest, oat, barley and rye crops in all Argentine history...
This is the main plot line of Central Park, but the picture is full of extraordinary bypaths. A lunatic appears in the zoo and tries to get even with one of the keepers for not feeding the animals enough meat. An aged policeman (Guy Kibbee) loses his badge for failing to apprehend the lunatic but not until a lion (Jackie, of the Selig Zoo, Los Angeles) has escaped from his cage and crawled into a taxicab from which he presently emerges to enter the Casino just after its guests have survived the shock of the holdup. All this assorted violence...
...mistreat Lora Nash. Polikai strangles the thief, throws the champion (Wladek Zbyszko, who also appears briefly in Uptown New York}, goes to jail. Actor Emil Jannings, of whom Wallace Beery is coming to be the U. S. equivalent, appeared in a picture called Variety which had a plot noticeably similar to that of Flesh. However, when Edmund Goulcling (who directed Grand Hotel) wrote Flesh, and when John Ford directed it. they would have done well to remember more of Variety than the outline of the story. Flesh moves in a lugubrious way, too slowly to be exciting, and perspiring...