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...been split: 1) $20,000 to the Brown Agency, 2) $20,000 to Lawyer Santosuosso, 3) $15,000 to one Frederick Graves, a Brown representative. 4) $30,000 to Mayor Curley. According to Mr. Graves, Mayor Curley had asked before approving the settlement: "What is there in this...
...Portuguese, the Dutch, and finally by the British after 1824. But the island of Singapore (in Malayan "Lion City''), a feverish mush of mangrove roots and black mud 27 miles long by 14 broad, was practically uninhabited until far-sighted Sir Stamford Raffles set up a trading settlement on the island in 1819. had the whole island ceded to the East India Co. five years later...
...Deal." On the one hand he amnestied Tyrant Machado, on the other he decided to make payments on the defaulted bonds to bolster Cuba's credit so he could begin borrowing afresh. Last week he had his figurehead President, Federico Laredo Bru, rubber-stamp through congress a settlement which provides: 1) refunding of $40,000,000 5½% bonds, largely held by the Chase interests, with a 4½% issue; 2) payment of $20,000,000 short-term credit owed the Chase; and 3 ) appointment of a commission to haggle over the $20,000,000 owed the contractors...
International Settlement (Twentieth Century-Fox) makes a bee line to the Far East to cash in on the publicity value of the daily Sino-Japanese headlines. More worthy of note than its short-order plot are: 1) its resourceful utilization of the newsreel shots of the Shanghai bombing (TIME, Sept. 13); 2) its hopeful experiment with doll-like, undistinguished June Lang (real name: Jane Vlasek) as a beautiful-but-dumb comedian; 3) its commanding hero, 6 ft.-3 in. George Sanders. Russian-born of British parents, Sanders made a great stir in his first Hollywood role, as the foppish Lord...
...anyone will see, who cares to spend two and a half enjoyable hours at RKO Boston, Dolores Del Rio is back in circulation, more beautiful and versatile than ever. The picture which brings her back. "International Settlement," is trivial enough; it is a by-product of the excess footage news-reel crews brought back from China, and in noted for its phenomenal lack of anything resembling a plot. But it stars Miss Del Rio and it is a good picture...