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Sins of Man (Twentieth Century-Fox). Sad, simple and superfluous, this picture depicts the mishaps of one Christopher Freyman (Jean Hersholt), bell ringer in the Tyrolean town of Zanebruck. Christopher's wife dies, his younger son is deaf & dumb, his elder son gets killed in a plane crash, Zanebruck is wiped out by a war bombardment and, by 1935, poor old Chris is no more than a Manhattan bottle-washer. His deaf son, cured by the roar of guns, then turns out to be a great composer, recognizable to his sire by a symphony, The Cathedral Most lugubrious shot...
THREE DIED BESIDE THE MARBLE POOL -Carl M. Chapin-Crime Club ($2). Well-written, closely reasoned yarn about a deaf hero's exploits in untangling a skein of gory complexities with the aid of teletype and microphone...
...months ago Editor Maurras was fined $6.50, sentenced to four months in jail on the grounds that a previous editorial had inspired a Royalist mob to give Leon Blum a cruel beating on a Paris street (TIME, Feb. 24 et seq.}. Last week Editor Maurras, who is stone deaf, rushed forward to the Judge's bench, began shouting his fears that Leon Blum would lead France into war against Italy. "If my threats of death have prevented war between France and Italy, may they be blessed!" he screamed, brushing back his hair and consulting a handful of notes...
...ordered a radical cut in U. S. rail rates (TIME, March 9), all the Eastern lines except the Baltimore & Ohio have yammered that the new rates (2? per mi. in coaches; 3? in Pullmans) were unfair, would do the roads more harm than good. When the ICC turned a deaf ear to all protests and ordered the new rates into effect June 2 as scheduled, the Eastern group decided on a court fight. Fortnight ago the B. & O. declared it would lower its rates anyway...
Last week a deaf old lady checked out of a small hotel in Lewisburg, Pa. after seven months of seclusion there, returned quietly to Manhattan. Remaining in seclusion unrelieved was her 69-year-old husband, Joseph Wright Harriman. onetime socialite banker, whose exploits in dementia during his criminal trial three years ago scarcely equaled those by which he put his Harriman National Bank & Trust Co. into the red and finally into receivership in 1933. As prison librarian at Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary, Convict Harriman had ample opportunity last week to read in the Press of the embarrassments his bank caused...