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...Confirmed David Burnet of Ohio to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue...
...succeed Robert Henry Lucas, who resigned to become Executive Director of the G. O. P.. President Hoover appointed David Burnet to be Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Ten years a tax-collector, Mr. Burnet was promoted from deputy commissioner on merit, not politics...
...Boundary Line is a psychological melange by Dana Burnet about a poet, his wife, a farmer, a lawyer The wife wishes to build a fence around the poet's properties. The farmer objects on the ground that he has a right of way. The poet is willing to accede to the farmer's objection. But the wife hires the lawyer, goes to court, defeats the farmer, who later dies of apoplexy. Finding his marriage torn asunder, the poet departs along the road while his wife seeks solace with the lawyer...
...this were a better play it would be more easily and forcibly discernible that the fence is a symbol for an orthodox snugness within which the conventional wife tries to inclose her imaginative, vaulting husband. But Playwright Burnet's dramatic sense is by no means as lucid as his psychology, and his taste is woeful. The theme is obscured in a plot stuffed with nonessentials. Otto Kruger acts the poet valiantly despite dialog which makes him speak like a moonstruck sixth-former...
...concerned with the sentiments involved. Once all the wax Munis come to life in a dream and tell sleeping Caretaker Muni how to straighten out the interrupted romance of two young people who used to meet in the gallery. A lot of film is wasted on this romance. Dana Burnet's dialog is not convincing. Best shot: Chibou finding out the truth about Napoleon...