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...surprised, in this screen play by Gene Fowler and W. P. Lipscomb, to learn his mission was to deliver a mysterious sealed letter; that he was aided by a swashbuckling ex-sergeant of Marines (Wallace Beery) and the lovely daughter (Barbara Stanwyck) of a Cuban patriot; that his principal antagonist was an international spy of in determinate nationality (Alan Hale); and that he was rescued from the clutches of the latter by a charge of General García's cavalry. Cinemaddicts less intimately acquainted with his exploit will accept these as legitimate embellishments of romanticized history. Good shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 20, 1936 | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

...remarked: "It's not you I try to dodge- it's the columnists I don't like!"* Then, angrily denying their engagement, he finally reached the girl he had been so frantic to see again - blonde Ethel du Pont, niece of President Roosevelt's bitter antagonist, Liberty Leaguer Irénée du Pont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Mar. 16, 1936 | 3/16/1936 | See Source »

When Greece recalled King George II from placid exile in shabby, respectable Brown's Hotel in London last year, it sucked him into a political vortex of danger and unease so critical that his friends were unfairly suspected of having poisoned his chief antagonist, the late General-Dictator George Kondylis (TIME, Feb. 10). Last week King George, normally a sedate and cautious citizen, was driving in nervous haste down an Athens street when a street car suddenly lumbered around a corner directly into his path. Having been tuned by his new life to hair-trigger reflexes, the King swung...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREECE: Hairbreadth George | 3/9/1936 | See Source »

...series of intercollegiate meets in the spring. After a few dual meets to be arranged soon, they will participate in early May in the New England Intercollegiate Meet at Northampton with eight or ten colleges competing, among them Smith. With several followers of Amelia Earhart, Smith is no mean antagonist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FLYING CLUB PLANNING FOR MEETS IN SPRING | 2/8/1936 | See Source »

...fiery oratory of the late Huey, the persuasive accents of Father Coughlin, the four inch headlines of Hearst dailies--all have been used by critics of the New Deal in their efforts to brand Roosevelt as the destroyer of the Constitution and the antagonist of "American Institutions." And now from the haunts of Mac West and Joan Crawford comes a film purporting to present the history of the Constitution in color and sound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GARBO AND THE CONSTITUTION | 11/6/1935 | See Source »

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