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Months ago Secretary of the Interior Harold Le Clair Ickes decided that his department deserved a better name and he more authority. Hence a bill appeared in Congress to rename the Department of the Interior the Department of Conservation. Last week the Senate passed and sent to the House a bill creating a Department of Conservation. Yet Secretary Ickes was anything but happy. The Senate bill gave him nothing but a new title, failed to give him administration of the Soil Conservation Service (new AAA), the Forest Service, the CCC. Worse still. Secretary Ickes' authority was on the point...
Welch of the Shanghai area; John W. Robinson of Southern Asia ; Eben Samuel Johnson of Africa; Frederick Thomas Keeney of Atlanta; Matthew Wesley Clair (Negro) of Covington, Ky. ; George Amos Miller of Central & South America...
...drawing-room comedy by Eduoard Pailleron, still in the repertoire of the Comedie Francaise, it suffers, as most plays suffer, in transference to the screen. There are long static scenes of photographed conversation, which must disappoint audiences that have been delighted by the rhythms of Rene Clair. The French have been among the leaders in the development of cinematic art, but the values of the present film are not cinematic. They are entirely those of the text and the acting...
Jefferson did not love Hamilton more than Eugene Talmadge and Harold Le Clair Ickes love each other. The Governor of Georgia, a master of Southern invective, and the Secretary of the Interior, who possesses the most sulphurous vocabulary in the New Deal, long ago singled out each other for particular attention. Month ago Secretary Ickes curled his lip and sneered: ''Really, I don't pay much attention to anything his Chain-Gang Excellency says." Governor Talmadge drawled back: "Aw! He's just one of them boon- dogglers...
...intoxicating mixture of spooks and nonsensical fun, "The Ghost Goes West", now showing at Keith Memorial, is just about the best thing in the last light-year of film reeled out of Hollywood. Jean Parker, just eighteen and refreshingly demure, is beautifully set by the skill of Rene Clair against the gentle sophistication of Robert Donat. And when haunts stop scaring you and make you laugh, you are bound to laugh twice as hard as usual...