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...reference to the letter and review [of The No-Nation Girl in TIME, Aug. 11, may I call your attention to two mistakes made in stating the plot? Allow me to quote from the first paragraph of chapter 5. "Cliff Dale could not have been called a northerner." He was purposely created a composite. His mother a "luxury loving daughter of a plantation owner of the traditional grand style." His father was from Pennsylvania. Cliff spent about half of his time in the south with his uncle, thus he was both by inheritance and environment about half and half...
...write the statements that are issued under the names of party leaders. So sharp have been Composer Michelson's attacks on President Hoover that last week Chairman William Robert Wood of the Republican Congressional Campaign cried out in hurt protest, charged the Democrats and Mr. Michelson with a "plot" to slander the President and undermine his influence. The Democratic New York World promptly turned up the fact that G. O. Pressagent West was admitted to President Hoover's press conference in open violation of the rule excluding all but accredited newsmen...
...Prolonged rioting between Liberals and Conservatives caused a threat of martial law in the town of Maximo Gomez, Matanzas Province. At Cruces, Santa Clara Province, horn-spectacled President Gerardo Machado neatly nipped another revolution in the bud by arresting 20 members of the Nationalist (anti-Machado) party, disclosed a plot to raid the Cruces army post, seize the arsenal stored there...
...long on the stage, an adaptation arranged in flashbacks, directed by Clarence Brown, with Lewis Stone as the middle-aged lover to whom Garbo returns after an interlude with a clergyman. For some reason the script makes her an Italian soprano. This detail, superficial, but salient in the plot, is the only thing in the picture that is silly. The simple expedient of altering the tag of the opera-singer to "Swedish Contralto" would have removed the skepticism which must afflict audiences through their realization that the bell-like head-tones heard issuing from a ballroom could not possibly...
Queen High (Paramount). Although this was a successful Broadway musical show four years ago even such talented entertainers as Charles Ruggles and Frank Morgan can hardly make a fair program picture out of it in its present form. The trouble is that the plot has been padded with pointless routine fooling and the old songs replaced with poorer though newer ones, badly sung. It still, however, contains that fine scene in which two partners in a tottering garter business draw a poker hand to decide which shall serve as the other's butler for a year...