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...such statement, had no interest in politics. Nationalist papers roared that this was "unwarranted meddling with Germany's internal affairs." Hitlerites, convinced that Chaplin is a Jew, marched up & down, roaring defiance, before the swanky Hotel Adlon where he was staying. A crowd of Communists, more practical, threatened to smash all the windows in the Adlon unless the great Chaplin received a delegation...
...fleet composed of nine battleships, an aircraft carrier (U.S.S. Langley) with 40 planes, three "treaty" cruisers, swarms of miscellaneous craft. With them were coming transports bearing 50,000 soldiers, hundreds of crated airplanes. Their aim? was to effect a landing on the Central American coast, set up their planes, smash the Panama Canal. Sharp eyes could easily have identified Rear-Admiral Frank Herman Schofield aboard the battleship California as the commander of this Black enemy fleet...
Attempts last week to interpellate Prime Minister Laval's Government about the loan brought a smash vote. By an overwhelming majority of 555 to 11 the Government's action in furthering the loan was barred from debate. Never was there better proof of the power of wealth...
...stage and cinema character actor, cousin of the late Representative Julius Kahn of California; of cancer; in Manhattan. Famed for his high stiff collars, his stuttering German comedy dialect, he had been on the stage for 62 years, in Friendly Enemies, The Man Who Stood Still (long run smash hits), The Second Fiddle, The Whirl of New York, Sins of the Children (cinema...
...Hecht was a small, dark, demoniac member of the Chicago literary circle that gave the U. S. such figures as Sherwood Anderson, Theodore Dreiser, Carl Sandburg. Big-eyed, thick-lipped, baldish, he looks Mediterranean rather than Jewish. With Charles MacArthur (husband of Actress Helen Hayes) he wrote the Broadway smash-hit The Front Page; with the same collaborator has written a new play that will be produced this year. Other books: Gargoyles, Erik Darn, 1001 Afternoons in Chicago, The Florentine Dagger, Humpty Dumpty, Broken Necks, Fantazius Mallare (limited and suppressed...