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Marking out more fully the scope of the new directive, Comrade Kosariov continued. "We have virtually no comedies in our theatres. Genuine love scenes must be introduced! We have no plays or films which really tell about ordinary everyday life. They must be produced! Joyful, hearty laughter must sound in play and film?laughter which defeats the enemies of Communism and helps us to build Socialism...
...Clearing House Association to launch the long-debated $50,000,000 Commodities Finance Corp. (TIME, Aug. 15). Though dubbed "the commodity pool" in its rumor stage, C. F. C. will purchase no commodities. It will conduct a financing business along strict banking lines. Banker Buckner defined its scope as "facilitating the financing of the purchase, carrying, and orderly marketing ... of agricultural and other commodities." Actual operations will be handled by two subsidiaries, one engaging solely in an acceptance business, the other lending to worthy companies. C. F. C.'s directors are representatives (in most cases presidents...
Last week announcement was made of a new company which will provide cheap, efficient, attractive homes at prices which will cross the frontier of the. low-salaried worker. In scope as well as in name, General Houses, Inc., will resemble the highly-articulated automobile company which caters to all classes. First statement about the new company and its purposes was made in the July issue of FORTUNE...
...after Queen Elizabeth's death, when religious malcontents fled England for Holland, cleared out from there for a newer, presumably better world. Pilgrim Fathers & Mothers are the heroes & heroines of Authoress Carlisle's book. In We Begin she paints, with meticulous nicety of detail, an historical mural of extraordinary scope. Following muralist technique, she manages to make her characters striking but not too personal, her details vivid but not too bright. Only a theatrical ending tarnishes her brilliant scenario...
...Store tells particularly of Col. Miltiades Vaiden and his rise to notoriety in Florence, Ala., about the time of Grover Cleveland's presidencies. Written in the great tradition of well-peopled novels, the book successfully commingles impartial observation and ubiquitous sympathy, tinged with a faintly subacid humor. In pitch, scope, execution it is easily the most important U. S. novel of the year. Col. Miltiades Vaiden, a vastly human character who should walk straight into the U. S. Pantheon, is more than the central figure of the story. He is the focus in which the town of Florence reflects...