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...would be more persuasive if it did not permit the impression that experience in the trenches may have improved Fred about as much as it weakened Jimmy. As melodrama, it would be more effective if Director W. S. Van Dyke had avoided more of the cliches that tend to attach themselves to all pictures involving 1) soldiers, 2) gangsters, 3) emotional triangles. To balance its defects, They Gave Him A Gun, no masterpiece but a fast-moving, adult screen play, has the ad vantage of highly proficient performances by its three principals, notably Gladys George in her first major role...
...this State for the purpose of dredging Pee-Wee River in the county of San Diego, which river flows 2¼ inches of water during three days of each year, if and when it rains." Apparently fearing the bill might get passed, the Senate jokesters had the Finance Committee attach an official amendment reducing the appropriation to three cents...
...sheer beauty. Last week she went at the hurdle of her second novel- which for authors is what Becher's Brook is for Grand National riders. Interested bystanders shook their heads over a near-cropper, gave odds that she would not finish in the money, and those who attach more value to performance than style said Author Johnson's Pegasus got his feet all mixed up in metaphors, looked better in a show ring than he did over a fence...
...Young Plan bonds, on which interest has been paid in part, and the obligations of a few German corporations, notably Hamburg-American and North German Lloyd issues. The only reason these corporate debts have been honored in full is that spunky U. S. bondholders methodically set out to attach the debtors' property in the U. S., including their ships when they docked. How much money could be squeezed out of Germany if the rest of the bondholders got tough is problematical. Britain's simple threat of appropriating German trade balances for the benefit of its citizens holding German...
...denote to rescue craft her position on the sea floor; the Momsen artificial lungs (TIME, Aug. n, 1930) with which some of the Nautilus' crew pass to the surface through the emergency release hatch; the salvage air intake to which a diver, reaching a disabled craft, can attach an oxygen line, feeding air to the imprisoned crew until they can be rescued in the rescue bell-a sort of undersea elevator operated on cables from the salvage ship above. If Devil's Playground had been made several years ago, when its cast names were...