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Since the Civil War, most news from Spain has been written from afar, contributed by correspondents who 1) could not get in, 2) could not find out much if they did, 3) did not like what they found out. Last week Carey Longmire, open-eyed correspondent of the Paris New York Herald, turned in a report of a real trip through Spain. Having no truck with the official and political life, Correspondent Longmire wandered through the towns noting the price of eggs, the looks of posters, the crowds at bullfights, jokes, songs and the length of women's bathing...
...amazingly daring choice of plot in these days of Hays, "Wuthering Heights" is unusually good. Even with Emily Bronte's subtle interweaving of incest here reduced to grim hints that flicker like summer lightning from afar, the film has caught that quality in the story that surpasses time or place. Tragedy, stark as the Yorkshire moors that are its scene, is the theme of "Wuthering Heights"; and not a punch has been pulled in Goldwyn's cinema version of this dank offshoot of nineteenth-century Romanticism. Especially convincing in the early scenes, Merle Oberon and Lawrence Olivier run the full...
...allure of a "name" band; a week end of frolic with the one girl, enticed from afar by the promise of Jimmy Dorsey or Benny Goodman; the opportunity for a party of such proportions that even "Life" might come--this is the picture often painted of a single, monumental class prom. Now that the House Committees are considering abandonment of the costly but not quite sensational $800 band--abandonment of the attempt partially to satiate the jitterbug enthusiasm of Harvard name-band devotees--and acceptance of the smaller, restricted House dances, the prom has again become an issue...
...Cromwell's to which Mr. Eccles takes strong exception. Lameduck Congressman John J. McGrath of California; Deputy Administrator Aubrey Williams of WPA, who had just put his foot in his mouth again (see p. 14); Dr. Will Alexander, the Farm Security Administrator-these were Presidential callers from afar, before Ambassador Hugh Wilson arrived from Berlin...
Hague and Jersey City form a political curiosity which may be observed with scientific interest from afar; similarly, Huey Long's reign in Louisiana excited national attention. They are isolated cases, but when Mayor Hague's bullying methods spread to Newark, the time has come to view with alarm. Perhaps the growing emulation of Hague is nor surprising in view of Mr. Thomas's indictment of Governor Moore as "only Hague's Charlie McCarthy." In any, case the isolated curiosity must be checked before its "tyranny in the guise of patriotism" becomes a vogue in American municipalities. Just...