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...Wallace Ford), Cajoled by Jean Harlow, neglects the obligations of his detective's badge so far as to help two gangsters rob a bank. He and his accomplices are captured but they "beat the rap." The young brother is then so much ashamed of himself that he offers to betray the gang. This leads to the climactic scene in which revolvers pop for two minutes and a half, killing most of the major members of the cast except Jean Harlow...
...completely the Lindberghs, their advisers and police had knuckled under to the kidnappers was evidenced in a still later bulletin by Columbia Broadcasting System which suggested that those in possession of Charles Augustus get in touch with some lawyer, who would be ethically bound not to betray them, or communicate with the Lindberghs over a dial telephone, from which no call can be traced. Only an ominous silence was forthcoming from the abductors...
...side of the minority in this crusade for critical integrity stand the dramatic reviewers of the more conservative papers, as well as their colleagues, the book-reviewers. These men generally resist the more rhapsodical advertising and seldom betray their public. From their writings, however, are extracted such fragments as are susceptible of favorable interpretation out of context: and thus the deceit grows apace...
...affairs outside of college to borrow a motto from a more conservative colleague: Dulce est periculum. If there is any sustaining editorial faith it must be a faith in the natural death of fools. If the liberalism is not foolish, sensitiveness on the part of the attacked will inevitably betray that the critical shaft has struck home. Attack for the sake of attack is destructive and errs on the seamy side of journalism...
...Berlin telephone girl was asked her name by Premier Benito Mussolini in Rome she refused to tell. He, pleased by her super-service on a long distance call to the Italian Embassy in Berlin, demanded her name. Still she refused. Last week the Embassy discovered but did not betray her secret. Il Duce invited her to spend her vacation in Rome "as the guest of the Italian Government...