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...Water Board will meet tonight to decide whether it will join the Metropolitan system or will sink wells to take care of the deficiency. Naturally, the Board does not wish to give up its present system and pay out $185,000 to join the Metropolitan system. It is possible that Cambridge could join the system temporarily "for the duration," and revert to its own system when the crisis passes...
...building on the French coast. The building turned out to be Le Touquet Casino, where a dance was in progress. Their mission turned out to be to capture Field Marshal Hermann Göring, carry him, if they could, to their fast boat, and take him, if he did not sink it, back to England. They entered the hall, shot all officers present, returned emptyhanded. Reason for the failure of the mission: the fat man wasn't there...
When they find some definite action into which they can sink their fangs the people seem to forget or to ignore the logic of the "outrages." What did the newspaper editors of the nation think Hitler would do when our Navy was told to fire on his ships? Smile benignly on us, say "danke schoen" and turn back to his knackwurst? If we're going to shoot, so's he; two can play at that game. He has nothing at all to gain from letting American ships loaded with supplies pass by his undersea blockade unharmed. America is unneutral already...
...Dunne--who decides to have her fling in the big city. On the way there, she falls for a smooth slicker, played by Preston Foster, who promptly proceeds to forget her. From there on, the picture manages to give a dismal view of what "life in the penthouses" can sink to. Everyone hates everyone else; no one, except the everpresent proletarian butler, ever says anything pleasant to anyone else; and more highballs are downed per foot of film than in any movie turned out since Schenley's stopped producing propaganda flickers. Miss Dunne's ultimately successful attempt...
...attack by air, they have at least a chance to shoot down the enemy or keep the enemy at such height that it cannot make a sure hit. If it is a submarine . . . [it] can no longer rise to the surface within a few hundred yards and sink the merchant ship by gunfire at its leisure...