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...shown telling a group of financiers that the next farm strike will be more serious, and Mrs. Chris Martin seems to have grown more fond of her husband. A few good bits of wheat-farming local color-a "shivaree" at the wedding of the Martins' hired help, an auction at a foreclosed farm-are the only shots in Golden Harvest that really possess the sincerity to which the rest of the picture pretends...
Argentina's one-man Government, frustrated old Hipolito Irigoyen, died last July, stripped of power and mourned bitterly by 150,000 poor followers, including many who called themselves Personalistas Irigoyenistas ("Personal Friends of Irigoyen"). Last week Irigoyen's ranch was put up for auction. A few "personal friends" showed up to buy his steers for $18 each, his horses...
...munched hot dogs as cowboys herded the ponies into a pen. Then, while the crowd closed in to pick favorites, came the branding. Thrifty natives have put their brands on most of the ponies, take care to get them on the new colts which shadow their mothers. When auction time came, bidding was the best in years. The ponies bring $20 to $70 each, make good children's pets...
...haired lady. The fight was over Andy Gump, Winnie Winkle, Gasoline Alley and Dick Tracy. The lady was Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson, vivacious editrix of Hearst's Washington Herald. Banker Meyer did not fight in person, but as publisher of the Washington Post which he bought at auction last month (TIME. June...
...world die of a disease called "masculitis." Women hold the best jobs while a lady President heads the U. S. Government. Then a solitary male (Raul Roulien), thought to have died at the end of the second reel, reappears. He is captured by lady racketeers and held for auction, taken over by lady "Federal men'' who plan to preserve him as government property. A world conference finally disposes...