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...played by a 77-year-old Negro hair-tonic specialist named Toto Wane. When, inflamed by contraband gin, he executes a white man and then plots to kill and skin Paul Robeson, it is too much for Commissioner Sanders. He turns back from a contemplated trip to England, arrives via airplane, shoots King Mofolaba, rewards Robeson for loyal assistance by making him head chief of all the tribes in his district...
...Travelers reaching Moscow from the Far East via the Trans-Siberian report trains of "Kirov Exiles" moving eastward under armed guard...
...revival is "Animal Kingdom," starring Ann Harding as the mistress whose lover was unfaithful to her, via his wife. The superficiality of the plot, and the obvious trickness of the reversed situation of wife and mistress, does not make this film worth seeing, but "The Count of Monte Cristo" is worth the sacrifice. Better still, arrive after the one, and just before the other...
...peasants this forecast that the boon of private housekeeping will soon be conferred brought joy. Another mistake, according to Stalin via Yakovlev, has been the Dictator's attempt to stamp out all private cultivation whatever by peasants on collective farms. Forecast was a uniform system for Soviet peasants, now forcibly 80% collectivized, under which each family will enjoy not only private housekeeping but the further boon of tilling for its own private enjoyment between one and three acres...
Refused permission to enter Russia, Andrew took his party in via the Arctic. One of them was killed in a crevasse, one lost a foot. Finally forced to turn back before they had found their German, they were arrested as spies. By the time they were safely out of Russia, Andrew had contracted a bad case of insomnia, daily headaches that nearly drove him crazy. A doctor told him his days were numbered, so he spent his last energy trying to find Greta again. In a little Baltic town he found her, the night ne'er-do-well Sandy...