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...Review of Motion Pictures has a committee on exceptional photoplays that annually picks ten U. S. pictures for their artistic merit. Top choice for 1937 was creepy, melodramatic Night Must Fall. Others, in order: The Life of Emile Zola, Black Legion, Camille, Make Way for Tomorrow, The Good Earth, They Won't Forget, Captains Courageous, A Star Is Born, Stage Door...
...Harry Baur in The Golem, Humphrey Bogart in Black Legion, Charles Boyer in Conquest, Nikolai Cherkassov in Baltic Deputy, Jackie Cooper in Boy of the Streets, Danielle Darrieux in Mayerling, Greta Garbo in Camille, Robert Montgomery in Night Must Full, Maria Ouspenskaya in Conquest, Luise Rainer in The Good Earth, Joseph Schildkraut in The Life of Emile Zola, Mathias Wieman in The Eternal Mask, Dame May Whitty in Night Must Fall. Unmentioned was Hollywood's 1937 pride, Paul Muni (Zola), recently accorded a niche in Hollywood's Hall of Fame in the Carthay Circle Theatre...
Last week Christ also was pictured in a Nazi role by Germany's No. i Jew-baiter, Julius Streicher. Bullet-headed Streicher, through nimble feats of exegesis, has long since asserted that the central doctrine of Christianity is anti-Semitism and that Christ came to the earth to save the world from the Jews. Attacking a recent speech against anti-Semitism by pompous little Bishop William Thomas Manning of New York, Streicher's organ Der Sturmer declared: "If Christ were again to come to earth and heard Bishop Manning he would say 'this Bishop Manning...
...which I am sure we can-Japan will be on the verge of bankruptcy and facing revolution!" To achieve this aim, Chinese were burning down whole cities, such as Chinkiang 40 miles east of Nanking, destroying millions of dollars worth of Chinese property. This was announced as a "scorched earth policy" to make conquest as difficult as possible for Japan. It took 48 hours of steady slugging at the walls of Nanking and bitter hand-to-hand fighting in the streets before Japanese announced they had captured it this week. Almost simultaneously a radiogram from fugitive Premier and Generalissimo Chiang...
Chicago is the capering ground of the most showmanly administrator of public health on earth-Dr. Herman Niels Bundesen, Berlin-born Dane, who as president of Chicago's Board of Health and by means of spectacular propaganda, keeps vast Chicago an exceptionally healthy city in which to be born & live...