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...oldest Deputy opens each new Reichstag, and old people's tongues are tart. Last autumn the 6th Reichstag since the founding of the Republic was opened by drooling Frau Clara Zetkin, 75, "Grandmother of the German Revolution," who screamed Communist abuse of President von Hindenburg, demanded his impeachment (TIME, Sept. 12). Last week the new (7th) Reichstag was opened in equally abusive fashion by grizzled, gimlet-eyed, grey-mustached General Karl Litzmann, 82, the Fascist Party's specially acquired official parliamentary oldster...
Call Her Savage (Fox) is a blatant and tasteless libel on the Amerind, notable only because its heroine is impersonated by Clara Bow, who retired from the cinema in 1931 after winning a suit against her secretary, Daisy De Boe. When, after retiring to a Nevada ranch and marrying Actor Rex Bell, Cinemactress Bow announced last summer that she would resume acting, producers were dubious. They felt that Miss De Boe's revelations about Miss Bow's private affairs might have injured her popularity. Having decided to take a chance, Fox did more. It chose as a vehicle...
...Miss Bow's performance. Looking slightly more blowzy than she did in the days when she played flapper parts in silent cinema, she shows with enthusiastic violence and a flat, tough Brooklyn accent what such flappers can turn out to be when they grow up. Typical shot: Nasa (Clara Bow), insulted in a café, hurling a plate with one hand and striking a waiter with the other. Confessed Actress Bow when she arrived in Manhattan last week: "I'm getting older, and hot-cha doesn...
...joined Fox in 1930 and made the ocean liner in Transatlantic a model for modern interiors on shipboard. Edwin Burke, son of a wholesale grocer in Albany, took up writing for the stage against his father's wishes, joined the Fox scenario staff in 1929. lately wrote dialog for Clara Bow's forthcoming picture Call Her Savage...
Editor of Mothers' Guide is Mrs. Clara Savage Littledale who edits also the highly successful Parents' Magazine. Parents' has climbed to 300,000 circulation, is completing its "best year financially...