Word: edwardes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Capra has not sacrificed entertainment for his "message." The cast is superb, headed by James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, and Edward Arnold. The Senate set is a perfect replica of the Washington chamber, but best of all are the shots taken in the Lincoln Memorial, the real thing this time...
Last fortnight Canada prohibited sales of two U. S. journals: Jew-baiting Father Charles Edward Coughlin's Social Justice, the picture magazine Look. (Already banned was the Communist New Masses.) Similar moves against 20 other U. S. magazines were rumored...
...President Edward Sanborn French of B. & M., which has $60,000,000 of debt coming due within five years, Jesse Jones outlined a recapitalization plan to put through before bankruptcy becomes unavoidable. His main proposals...
Died. Doktor Heinrich Ritter von Neumann 66, world-famed Austrian ear & throat specialist, himself partially deaf; of a gastric ailment; in Manhattan, where he had gone to assist in resettlement of Jewish refugees. His skill brought him summonses from Kings Edward VIII of England, Alphonso of Spain, Carol of Rumania, George of Greece, many a penniless sufferer. Only patient he refused to treat: Adolf Hitler...
...literary curiosity, Old Possum's cat book rates high. The verses, which show a perfect skill, are profoundly Anglican, closer in spirit and allusion to Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll than to any U. S. humor. In some of them Eliot goes kittenish in a big way, recalling that suspect, sissified element in Lear and Carroll which sets U. S. teeth on edge. Yet latent in other of Possum's poems is enough ferocious fancy and parody to knock the spots off most cat books and most child verses...