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Containing no dialog, with only 700 words of exposition by an unseen commentator, The Plow That Broke the Plains begins with lush, billowy grass, ends with the hulk of a dead tree surrounded by sun-baked desert. What happens between is shown in the arrival of the cattle on the great 400,000,000-acre pasture of the Plains, the inrush of speculators in the wake of the railroads. A homesteader's plow bites into soil held together by the deep roots of prairie grass. Warns a voice: ''Settler, plough at your peril!" A grizzled farmer observes...
...last week went the first of a series of reports from the Securities & Exchange Commission on reorganization and protective committees. This fertile field for Roosevelt reform is still unfinished business so far as New Deal securities legislation is concerned. A 133-page document, crammed with facts, figures and juicy dialog gleaned from SEC's hearings last year, the report dealt only with municipal securities. Other reports on railroad, real estate, industrial and foreign protective committees will soon follow, accompanied by recommendations for regulatory legislation...
FLOWERS FOR THE JUDGE-Margery Allingham - Double day, Doran ($2). Author Allingham's characters are conventional murder-story puppets but by skillful pace, dialog, detail, she makes a commonplace theme into a specious and entertaining yarn...
...Henry Fonda, answers, "Possibly. I'm the girl you mar ried once." However affecting the double-entendre of the exchange may be to people who know all about the private lives of Miss Sullavan and Mr. Fonda, the fact remains that up to the time at which this dialog is spoken, The Moon's Our Home is an agreeable effervescence, which then sags to a repetitious, overcomplicated ending...
...Efforts to elicit the philosophy of A. T. & T.'s President Walter Sherman Gifford on lobbying produced this dialog...