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...Highest Feed Barrister in Great Britain" Sir John Simon prepared to sail at once for India, there to continue the labors of his "Indian Statutory Commission" (TIME, Jan. 30 et seq.). Sir John, as Chairman of the Commission, is directing a gigantic research into whether it is advisable for Parliament to grant or withhold a greater measure of Indian self government...
SHOW GIRL-J. P. McEvoy-Simon & Schuster ($2). Apropos of Show Girl, Florenz Ziegfeld has written (or, at least, signed) his first book review; and in the distinguished Saturday Review of Literature at that. Likening the lives of showfolk to "April days blended of sun and showers," Mr. Ziegfeld brings Author McEvoy to task for letting his version of Broadway make such unadulterated whoopee. However, reviewer praises author as "a lusty fellow" who "writes with gusto" of Dixie Dugan "the hottest little wench that ever shook a scanty at a tired business man." Other characters are Dixie's devoted...
...which were proposed, last week, to the House of Commons by harassed Stanley Baldwin. First came a promise that the Baldwin Government will shortly force reduction of British freight rates on coal, in an effort to stimulate that industry, and relieve unemployment among miners. Second, Mr. Baldwin announced that Simon Joseph Fraser, Baron Lovat, Permanent Undersecretary of the Dominions Office, will shortly set sail for Canada, Australia and New Zealand, to prepare a survey and general plan for integrating the manpower needs of Daughter Dominions with the job needs of Mother Britain. The projects, after being amply aired by Prime...
Soon a U. S. youth will leave for the Belgian Congo, to battle with the tsetse fly. He is Dr. Warren K. Stratman-Thomas, 28, research pharmacologist at the University of Wisconsin, A. B., M. A., Ph. D., M. D., Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation which annually sends 75 young U. S. scholars, scientists, artists, to study in all parts of the world...
BAMBI-A Life in the Woods-Felix Salten-Simon and Schuster ($2.50). Painful in the extreme are animals that talk. Among long-standing exceptions are Aesop's menagerie with their impressive wit, and Br'er Rabbit with his ingenuity. Boasting no such qualifications, Bambi, straightforward story of animal life, is nevertheless another worthy exception. And though the story will also be read to children, the Book-of-the-Month Club has offered it to its subscribers, adults. For aside from interesting data on wild animals (which, not being the very wild animals of Safari, will...