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Immutable privilege of dictators, within their borders, is that of changing past and current history to suit themselves. Last week in Rome, Fascist Italy celebrated an "Italo-Spanish solidarity day" to whip up enthusiasm for the Spanish Rightist cause. Presence of Italian "volunteers'" with scarred faces, empty sleeves, lost legs, lucidly illustrated Italy's participation in the war. Representing Generalissimo Franco was one-eyed, one-armed General Jose Millan Astray, founder 3 of Spain's Foreign Legion...
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...Hepburn's prestige is not the only coup Columbia will score if Holiday proves a box-office hit for the third time. The company acquired the script for practically nothing, by paying RKO $80,000 for a batch of shelved stories which also turned out to include its current hit, The Awful Truth. As an adapter, Screenwriter Stewart was an obvious, as well as fortunate, selection. One of Playwright Barry's best friends, he started a fashion since copied by Critic Alexander Woollcott, Playwright George S. Kaufman and Novelist John O'Hara by acting in the stage...
Josette (Twentieth Century-Fox) will leave undecided the rumor current for some time that Simone Simon can sing. When trying she produces noises which are not unpleasing but remain unintelligible because she never lets articulation interfere with her famed pout. From time to time, it appears that Robert Young, borrowed from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, will be permitted to get the girl, thus beating out his rival, Don Ameche, on his home lot. This would, however, constitute a serious breach of cinema convention and does not occur. Josette further manifests its veneration for tradition in nothing more clearly than its plot...
...Commodity Credit will use $100,000,000 of its new capital to clear its debt to RFC, $60,000,000 to refund collateral trust notes it sold last year, will have $40,000,000 left for current needs...