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...years, will continue to closet himself with the editorial page, attacking and revising editorials on a large board laid across his knees. Conservative, sentimental, Editor Dennis personifies the News, a relic of the days of Founder Lawson, the days of Writers Eugene Field, Finley Peter Dunne, George Ade, Keith Preston and Dramacritic Amy Leslie (TIME, Sept. 8). Managing Editor Henry Justin Smith, lean, droop-mustached, with a stride like a camelopard, will continue to run the news staff as he has done for 30 years. He is often visited by his one time Reporters Carl Sandburg (who still writes...
...typical Will Rogers cinema. Waggishly embarrassed, he undertakes to disport himself in a silk-hat and long-tailed coat, criticize second rate statuary, attend night clubs, horse-races and a dancing class, gargling quiet wisecracks as he does so. The story, adapted from a play by George Ade called Father and the Boys, shows how a dyspeptic and chronically disgruntled businessman becomes revitalized in an effort to outdo his lively offspring. His sons suspect him of reckless conduct with a vivacious lady (Fifi Dorsay), suspect that his nose, withdrawn from the grindstone, will become tarnished by inebriation. Instead, his lively...
...bizarre and colorful phraseology." Today Mr. Chen, who is back in Canton repeating .the revolution of 1926, insolently pictures President Chiang as a would-be Emperor of China on bizarre posters, colorfully calls the ancient walls of President Chiang's capital city "Nanking's Rococo Façade...
...Behind Nanking's rococo façade, which some foreigners have helped to erect, there is working a political system, or rather a family corporation whose idea of running the country is the management and exploitation of China as the property of Chiang Kai-shek and his so-called family...
...talking into a microphone which is held several feet away from him instead of close to the ropes, against his lips; Ayres wearing a full dress suit in a nightclub, a sartorial liberty which even Gene Tunney in his most precious period never ventured. Only real shots: the façade of Madison Square Garden; some cleverly interposed scenes from actual Garden fights...