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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Climaxing Moscow's celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Revolution was a gala preview of the Soviet film Lenin in October attended by Stalin. In this it is not Lenin & Trotsky who make the Revolution of 1917 but Lenin & Stalin. The historic role of Trotsky as creator of the Red Army and as the Soviet War Commissar who defeated the White Armies and saved the Revolution is entirely omitted, as are other Old Bolsheviks who have now been executed. Watching the film this week, Our Sun beamed to observe that Lenin, impersonated by ace Soviet Cinemactor Schchukin...
AUGUSTUS - John Buchan - Houghton Mifflin ($4.50). Attempt, carefully collated, well-considered, sympathetically written by Lord Tweedsmuir, Governor General of Canada, to recreate what the creator of the "Augustan Peace" must have been like. Heavyish going, however, for all but the more serious readers...
...body of Andrew Carnegie were disinterred it would be found to have turned after that award to the creator of The Yellow Cloth. The dead steelmaster's fortune has scattered libraries throughout the land, has endowed Carnegie Tech and founded the Institute which judged this painting. Oh hail! to the libraries and Tech and "oh Hell!" to the Institute...
Cartoonist Harold Gray, creator of Little Orphan Annie, has little trouble getting his character into direly complicated situations. Last week the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate, which features Annie, was in an awkward spot itself. Annie had just been saved by benevolent Arunah Blade from unscrupulous Brittlewit who had previously adopted Annie, insured her for $100,000, and then shoved her in the river. Benefactor Blade, explaining how Brittlewit had been able to take out the huge policy, said last week: "OF COURSE, THERE HAD TO BE A FAVORABLE RETAIL CREDIT REPORT-BUT THAT WAS EASY." Cartoonist Gray...
...atomic physics and Ernest Orlando Lawrence is one of the new. Last week Lawrence was again traveling eastward, bound for Rochester, N. Y. where the National Academy of Sciences meets this week. Not only as the originator of the cyclotron but as the foremost U. S. destroyer and creator of atoms, the No. 1 U. S. investigator of artificial radioactivity and the headmaster of what is in effect a school for atomic physicists, he was to receive the Comstock Prize ($2,500 and a certificate). With a membership limited to 300, the National Academy is the lordliest body of scholars...