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...organizations were running large lotteries with small prizes. Someone, it appeared, was making an unholy profit. The alert World-Telegram turned the complaints over to Federal District Attorney Medalie for investigation. Last week the Federal Grand Jury in Manhattan indicted Pennsylvania's Senator James John ("Puddler Jim") Davis, Conrad Henry Mann, president of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, five other individuals and Western Union Telegraph Co. on charges of operating interstate lotteries. Conspiracy indictments were also returned...
Poetry is represented in this issue by a competent sonnet of Sherman Conrad's, and then by a thing called "Opening of A Long Poem (Maybe)" by James Agee. Over this entry the well laid schemes of apportionment went to pieces, and any editor might well wonder what to do with the remainder of a magazine which had decided to risk publication of Mr. Agee's opus. The poem is frankly an imitation--I will not say a copy--of Byron's "Don Juan", using the same verse form and employing the same tricks and devices...
Congress Dances is a new cinemusical type, noteworthy for its formality, charm, wit and innocence. It accents spectacle and pace, largely ignores plot implications. Conrad Veidt, an expert in menace parts who resembles Alfred Lunt, lets his face alone in this picture and is as cheerful a villain as he can be a gloomy hero. Lil Dagover is also on view as Tsar-bait. The Hollywood technique of getting the maximum out of a gag or situation is notably lacking in Congress Dances, hence its U. S. success is doubtful. Good shots: Metternich in a darkroom reading code despatches against...
...personalities in German literature of the nineteenth century have evoked more interest and more divergent views than Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Swiss poet and writer of Novellen; stylistic craftsman of genius, narrator of great events, delineator of great characters; and at the same time a paradoxical nature that has been the despair of biographers and critics who have tried to bring order out of the conflicting chaos of his life and work, to find reasons for the distance between this unhealthy, corpulent, shy man and the colossal figures of Renaissance, Reformation, and medieval history, who are the subjects...
...with her brother-in-law, Edward of Wales, who mischievously calls her "Queen Elizabeth."* News of the Duchess' "confession" was bracketed in British papers with this ultrasafe revelation: His Majesty the King-Emperor still reads and rereads Dickens, Thackeray and Trollope, has lately been dipping into Conrad...