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DURANTY REPORTS RUSSIA - Walter Duranty-Viking ($2.75). The best-known U. S. foreign correspondent is an Englishman. Like his compatriot, Sir Willmott Harsant Lewis, Washington correspondent of the London Times, Walter Duranty is a veteran at his post. Sent to Russia by the New York Times in 1921, he has been there off & on ever since, has gradually become the most official of unofficial U. S. ambassadors. When Commissar Maxim Litvinoff arrived last November in the U. S., Correspondent Duranty arrived with him. When Ambassador William C. Bullitt made his first official visit to the U. S. S. R. last...
...noble Italian husband, Kit spins the cabled threads of a financial web in which to catch his father, bring him to his knees. Though details are left vague, his scheme is ripe for success except for money. This he gets at the last minute from a one-armed Englishman, an even more sinister character than himself. Apparently part of their tacit understanding is that the Englishman shall marry Kit's sister-in-law, Beatrice, with whom Kit is more than a little in love. The scheme carries and Tycoon Abbott sues for mercy. To complete his revenge, Kit discovers...
...ditties of Richard Halliburton, but invariably they harmonize on taking their travels seriously. Against this impressive but monotonous harmony Explorer-Author Fleming raises a delightfully discordant note. In spite of all temptation to add a glamorous paragraph to adventure's annals he remains the up-to-date young Englishman, telling of his hairbreadth adventurings in the jungles of Brazil as a harebrained joke. Though he takes his stand as a modern member of an unromantic generation, his typical English understatement serves to underline many a tense scene's awkward moment. Thus he remains true to the old flag...
...Little Russian form of the name Sahar. His petition contradicted documents assembled by the British Government when Sir Basil was knighted in 1918 indicating that he was born in Paris, and also the prevalent theory that he was born in Constantinople of poor Greek parents, adopted by a rich Englishman who sent him to school in England. Said Hyman Barnett Zaharoff to a London Daily-Herald (Laborite) reporter: "For 22 years I have worked on my claim. Now I believe I have reached the end of my struggle. . . . I have personal memories which help my claim. I can remember birthmarks...
Alistair Cooke, an Englishman who has had a great amount of experience as director and critic, will direct the production...