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...reporters "cover" the Senate for the Congressional Record. They work in 15 minute shifts, generally sitting in empty Senate seats, sometimes at a table directly under the rostrum. Across special short-hand paper their fine-pointed pens fly in a script all their own. In the thick of argument, with half a dozen Senators darting in and out of the fray, they have no need to glance up but identify each Senator by the sound of his voice. Appalling to some is the mere thought of the number of Senatorial voices, otherwise forgotten, which Reporter Shuey may recollect...
...Private Affair is not new. It is the familiar society murder story now arranged around Ann Harding as a Viennese woman who killed in a just cause, and whose husband is the presiding judge when an innocent suspect is tried for the case. In spite of a script containing a scene of two people struggling for a revolver and full of lines like "You wouldn't do this to me," Stein has used smart craftsmanship. He avoids telling the story in flashbacks from the trial of the woman herself, shows instead her reactions to the trial of someone else...
...weapon supposed to be reserved for interloping foreigners. The crash of Hatry shares has been estimated to involve a $30,000,000 loss. Members of the Committee were said to have discovered that Hatry had obtained a loan of over $1,000,000 by depositing as collateral fictitious bearer script certificates of City of Wakefield 4½% stock. Four Hatry group companies are now going through liquidation: General Securities Ltd., of which the Marquis of Winchester is chairman; the Austin Friars Trust, Ltd., Dundee Trust, and Oak Investment Corp., Ltd. Also under strictest Stock Exchange Committee investigation were Associated Automatic...
Prime Minister Mussolini of Italy last week chewed on a bitter-sweet contract and said a sour thanks. The contract bore the signatures of his Ambassador to the U. S. Giacomo De Martino, and Deputy Amedeo Perna, Italian dentist-politician, and the level script of George Eastman, Kodak & film tycoon. It sweetly gave $1,000,000 to the Italian Government to build and equip a dental clinic in Rome. At the same time it bitterly implied the rottenness and crookedness of Italian children's teeth. And it hobbled the champing Mussolini to certain stout stipulations...
Meanwhile an airplane zoomed away from Manhattan bearing the Show Girl script for Miss Stone to learn while crossing the country. It arrived in Los Angeles just three hours after her train had departed eastward. There upon Will Rogers took to an airplane, pursued the train to an outlying station, dropped the script to Miss Stone who caught it on the fly. In her drawing room, as the train moved on, she began memorizing lines, practicing tap steps, after eating cautiously, with an eye to health...