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Moscow meanwhile was in significant frenzy about an internal food crisis, useful measure of the limit beyond which Red statesmen cannot go in external dumping. The Soviet press (a Government monopoly) told citizens throughout Russia of a British plot to "starve" them. Naming names, Izvestia declared the chief villain to be Andrew Fothergill Esq., a director of the British Union Cold Storage Co.'s plant at Riga, Latvia. He was said to have bribed the Chairman of the Soviet Meat Trust, Professor Alexander Riazanzev, to "disorganize the Soviet food distribution system and promote wholesale famine in Russia." Some Soviet...
...Fired by the Soviet press, workers' meetings throughout European Russia telegraphed to the Capital resolution after resolution demanding Death for the 48 accused. One resolution asked that the supreme Soviet decoration, "The Order of Lenin," be conferred on Ogpu, the secret service organization which had ferreted out this plot. A new flood of contributions poured in from workers for the proposed Soviet Zeppelin, to be christened Ogpu in honor of the secret police...
Scenario writers whose task is to portray the activities of the various gangs of racketeers, who shoot up the screen in many motion picture houses now must have exhausted their imaginations before the plot for "The Squealer" now current at the Keith Albee theatre, was concoted...
...rate musicomedies.? Oldtime theatregoers who remember that lush melodrama The Bird of Paradise?in which Lenore Ulric, Laurette Taylor, Lewis Stone, Guy Bates Post once took part?did not find Arthur Hammerstein's florid musical adaptation, Luana, as successful entertainment as its progenitor. Tediously faithful to the original plot in which a princess of the Sandwich Islands marries a young U. S. doctor, only to lose him and destroy herself in a volcano as a sacrifice to her people, Producer Hammerstein has given his show an exceedingly dull and majestic pace...
...durbar of a past season called Rio Rita. There were a number of handsome U. S. citizens transplanted to a South American scene. They apparently had been having difficulty in locating a gold mine in the Andes which had once been worked to a profit by the Incas. The plot grows more Incandescent when it develops that Jack Haines (Guy Robertson) has fallen in love with a lady (Ethelind Terry) who has been despoiled of her father's gold claims. More or less abetting a scheme to ruin the U. S. prospectors and to snatch Miss Terry from Mr. Robertson...