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...gets rid of all his Cabinet when they plot against him. When there is a motion in Congress to impeach him, he adjourns Congress, makes himself dictator. Molested by a tycoon gangster, he places his secretary at the head of a corps of Federal police in armored cars. They bombard the gangster's distillery, deliver its occupants to a firing squad. Throughout the picture the invisible presence of the Angel Gabriel is felt no more strongly than that of William Randolph Hearst whose cinema company made the film. President Hammond holds a debt parley on a yacht, gives visiting...
...using black & white line drawings as heretofore, Artist Disney is now making Silly Symphonies in color. Current release, King Neptune, is a bizarre romance in which a brown boatload of pirates is punished in silly-symphonic fashion for molesting a collection of sleek mermaids with green tails. Blue fish bombard the pirate boat with caviar which they spit out of their mouths like cannon balls; flying fish, improved to resemble airplanes, take off smoothly from the flat spinal cord of a good-humored whale; octopi wave their arms like the propeller-blades of autogiros and silver swordfish saw down...
...Paris, Walter Pach continued to bombard the critics and the Metropolitan from a distance. The Museum accepted its chastening humbly. Several months ago the Metropolitan bought four Pach canvases and invited Artist Pach to lecture there this winter...
...practical soldier of for tune, Col. Grove had had machine guns mounted on the Palace roof and had mobilized the carabineers. They faced the soldiers. General Moreno left to brave Col. Bravo the work of telling Col. Grove, "You must surrender by 11:30 p. m. or we bombard the Palace...
...some reason which escapes us, each time Spectator or any other college newspaper publishes an editorial which finds its way into the columns of the nations press, accusations of publicity seeking, sensationalism, and insincerity immediately bombard the editor or editors responsible. While Spectator's experience in this regard has been the worst example of such criticism in recent years, there have been numerous cases of similar trend, the most recent being that of the New York University Daily News in its attack on the football coach now reigning at that institution--an attack for which its editor is now being...