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...Germans think, and to them Henry Ford is Mohammed. The rest of Europe is less sure, but painfully interested. What if God turn out to be the Machine? It was good last week, it was very comforting to Spaniards in old Madrid (for example) to learn that Henry and Clara Ford had broken their swift 1930 swing around Europe by pausing to see the Passion Play...
...Wedding Night (Paramount). Out of a complicated and rapid plot derived from an old bedroom farce (Little Miss Bluebeard) has been drawn the mood of good humor that is this picture's main distinction. Clara Bow does nothing much but does it with her usual vitality. A picture star having fun in Europe, she is married in an early sequence to a bridegroom who is standing proxy for somebody else. Events lead naturally to a pursuit in pajamas through a magnificent suite in a continental hotel where every double bed contains Charles Ruggles, who is there by mistake. He does...
...Major Butt was also political counselor, social manager, playmate and secret chronicler about the White House. Shrewd enough to know the advantage of his confidential position and with a sharp eye on posterity, he wrote (sometimes from quotations jotted down on his immaculate cuffs) almost daily letters to "Dear Clara," his sister-in-law, Mrs. Lewis F. Butt of Augusta, Ga. In these, he gave a continuous account of private life in the White House. Six years ago was published the first series of the Butt letters covering the last year of the Roosevelt Administration. The death of Chief Justice...
Cuba. Prolonged rioting between Liberals and Conservatives caused a threat of martial law in the town of Maximo Gomez, Matanzas Province. At Cruces, Santa Clara Province, horn-spectacled President Gerardo Machado neatly nipped another revolution in the bud by arresting 20 members of the Nationalist (anti-Machado) party, disclosed a plot to raid the Cruces army post, seize the arsenal stored there...
Edmund Lowe was captain and first-baseman of a Santa Clara University baseball team which included Artie Schaeffer, Harry Wolters, Benny Kauff, all later big leaguers. He graduated from Santa Clara at 18, became a Master of Arts and member of the faculty at 19. College dra- matics had made him interested in acting and after a part in The Brat with a Los Angeles stock company he went to Manhattan, stayed there six years playing leads on Broadway. On his big ranch in the Santa Cruz mountains he breeds hounds and recently burbanked a new vegetable, a combination...