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...important did Soviet authorities con-sider the case last week that Chief Public Prosecutor André Vishinsky conducted it himself. Though Semenchuk cried shrilly that he was a visitor from Mars, manifested other symptoms of madness. Prosecutor Vishinsky was clearly out to make Wrangel's Governor an example to other remote Red bosses prone to autocracy...
Only one of France's famed politicians took no open part in last week's campaign. He was André ("L'Americain") Tardieu, Premier in 1929-30. After a year and a half's retirement writing his memoirs on the Riviera, André Tardieu was reported ready to run for Parliament from Belfort, at the insistence of Belfort's boss, Senator Viellard, steel tycoon. M. Tardieu went to Belfort. but instead of announcing himself a candidate for the Chamber, he made his sponsor's ears burn by declaring that he was through with parliamentary...
...French soothsayers had an explanation for this. France's ablest Fascists are the Croix de Feu under the leadership of handsome but ineffective Colonel Frangois Casimir de la Rocque. Colonel de la Rocque has neither the plan nor the push to make a real dictator. Neither perhaps has André Tardieu. but he at least is a politician shrewd enough, if not brave enough, to know what to do with the Croix de Feu. if he ever gets his hands on it. A more hard-headed explanation: André Tardieu could not be elected...
Cinemaudiences at Detroit's Michigan Theatre last week cocked their heads dubiously when a roly-poly character named Georges André Martin marched onto the stage as part of the additional entertainment. M. Martin amiably drew on a pair of black gloves whose first and second fingers were missing. Over his four bare fingers he pulled two pairs of little red pants, apologizing for "dressing in public." Thus costumed, M. Martin's agile fingers looked like bare legs, his hands became an incredibly realistic team of tiny dancers. The audience, fascinated by the childish spectacle, began to gurgle...
...merchant-banker in Aledo, Ill., Doris was brought up to be an "outdoorsy" gentlewoman. She went to a swank school in Lake Forest, majored in philosophy at Rockford College, became student art instructor, married a chemical engineer named Russell Werner Lee. In Paris she got pointers from André L'Hôte, in Kansas City from Ernest Lawson and the late Anthony Angorola, in San Francisco from Arnold Blanch. She and her husband live in a rambling house, full of stuffed birds, at Woodstock, N. Y. During her conscientious walks she makes sketches, paints from them. She likes...