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Since Frenchmen know that thrifty President Franklin Delano Roosevelt has a fat little fortune, they would approve if in marrying off an only daughter he dowered her with 20% of it in tax-exempt bonds. Such was the ratio observed last week by shrewd, earthy, peasant-born Premier Pierre Laval when, like equally plebeian Premier Benito Mussolini, he prepared to marry off his José to a count...
...also the intelligentsia, farmers and professional classes and is penetrating even the framework of the two old parties." All of this, according to No. 1 U. S. Red Browder, has been accomplished by Communists claimed to total 30,000 in the U. S. and to be only 60% foreign-born today, whereas in 1930 the 10,000 U. S. Reds were 90% foreign-born...
...mettle last week by Sam Darcy's announcement to the world that he expects bloody strife on California's coast next month. Since the Anti-Radical Squad had little or nothing on Comrade Darcy, it was overjoyed to discover that although that Red claimed to have been born in New York City when he ran as the Communist candidate for Governor of California in 1934 (and got 45,000 votes), he swore he was born in Russia this year when he applied for a passport on which to go to Moscow for the Congress of the Comintern. Armed...
...Born just before the Civil War, James Buchanan Brady grew up near New York's Bowery to become the most arresting figure in the bizarre night life of Broadway at the turn of the century. The picture, handsomely produced by Edmund Grainger, sketches his boyhood and then concentrates on his extraordinary career as gourmet, patron of the stage, stockmarket impresario and teetotaler that followed his overnight switch from New York Central "baggage smasher" to major-league railroad supply salesman. Since Brady's life is a legend, Playwright Preston Sturges, who did the screen play from Parker Morell...
Edward Arnold, whose real name is Guenther Schneider, was born in 1890 in Manhattan. His father, a German furrier, died when he was 11, his mother when he was 15. At 11 he was apprenticed to a wholesale jeweler, but truant officers made him quit. He worked as a newsboy, bellhop, janitor's assistant at Columbia University until he graduated from amateur theatricals at an East Side settlement house into touring in Shakespeare with the Ben Greet Players. Neither this nor playing juvenile leads with Ethel Barrymore convinced Edward Arnold that he had any future as an actor...