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After ex-Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin was made an Earl last year, a writer on Beaverbrook's Evening Standard casually summed up the long-standing political feud between the two men, concluding: ''Did Beaverbrook get anything from it? Yes. He got an attack of asthma. He has it still. He is no longer a political force...
...over six feet, weighs 202 lb. His brother James, also a writer and schoolteacher, is 6 ft. 4 in., an expert marksman reputed to be able to fire a shot, toss up the empty cartridge and split it in midair. His grandpa Mitch Stuart was involved in a lifelong feud with the Houndshells, in which both Houndshells and Stuarts were killed...
...jail when the fireworks in the basement exploded prematurely. Unimpeded by the restrictions of the stage, the camera follows the party to jail, then into court, then into the newspapers, then into a board meeting at the Kirby bank in a series of scenes which lifts the feud between the Kirbys and the Vanderhofs to the plane of that between the Montagues and Capulets. By the time Grandpa Vanderhof and Banker Kirby (Edward Arnold) eventually symbolize their inevitable meeting of minds by sitting down together to play Polly-Woily-Doodle on harmonicas. their duet affords some of the emotional impact...
...champagne went round it was conveniently forgotten that one of the chief purposes for which the Protocols were made was to help maintain the independence of Austria. Reputedly last week Hungary was sounded in Rome on the proposition that Yugoslavia, with whom Italy has ended her ancient feud, may shortly be asked to join the bipod, making it again a tripod. Keeping all Hungary's cards close to his chest, her Premier ended the Fascist festivities by vaguely declaring: "Our friendly relations with the Rome-Berlin Axis give us renewed hope that our efforts, directed toward the realization...
NIGHT ON THE PATHWAY-Charlotte Murray Russell-Crime Club ($2). Murders on a Midwest estate; suspicious neighbors involved in a family feud; and a corpulent, old-maid detective, Jane Amanda Edwards...