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...police record. But one employer recalled that he harangued fellow-workers against "the rich and powerful'' during lunch hours. In 1929 he was naturalized, later registering as a Republican voter. In 1926 his appendix was removed. Suffering from stomach ulcers he roamed the country restlessly. This chronic complaint evidently warped his reason, excited him to last week...
What! No Beer? (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Most cinemaddicts in the U. S. find Jimmy Durante's exaggerated nose and chronic excitement an irresistibly comic combination. His frozen-faced teammate, Buster Keaton, is an attraction abroad where people cannot understand what either one is talking about. In this picture, misinterpreting radio reports of the election, Durante and Keaton purchase a brewery in the delusion that their enterprise is legal. Fortunately they are so incompetent that they make near beer in spite of themselves; when arrested, they are immediately set free. By acquiring an experienced braumeister, they are soon in dangerous...
...silent for 30 months. This year in the Senate, where he is now recognized as the ablest legislator on banking matters, he talked for less than five newspaper columns. His words drawled out of the right corner of his severe mouth, his lips curling up into an expression of chronic ill humor. (Woodrow Wilson once remarked: "Think what Glass would say if he ever used both sides of his mouth...
...possibilities. Most vital appointment he has to make is that of Secretary of State, because, weak on foreign affairs, he needs an internationally equipped mind to lean on. Most often mentioned for this No. 1 Cabinet post is Owen D. Young. But Mr. Young's wife is a chronic invalid and last week Mr. Young was ordered to be examined in Federal Court on his connection with the bankrupt Insull Utility Investments-a connection which would help no public career before a catawauling Senate. Another outstanding possibility for Secretary of State is Newton Diehl Baker. But Mr. Baker...
...hypoerisy, his feeling for beauty, and his strong passion are contested against an inability to come to any decision, much as strength and weakness are opposed in most people. He is an ingenious, attractive lad whose life has been ruined by family heritage, an abnormal childhood, and his chronic incapacity to cope with the situations he comes up against, "Riverhead" deals with the metamorphosis of this last characteristic...