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...latest assessment of the price of socialism comes from Norman Thomas; for a socialistic burglar selected his particular summer home of all those on Long Island from which to filch fifty prime hens. For while Mr. Thomas was interpreting his doctrine literally by leaving his chicken shanty unlocked in a spirit of welcome to rich man, poor man, beggar man, and even to thief, the burglar seems to have taken him at his word. And the doubting Thomas awoke yesterday morning to find that a modicum of his store had been spirited away, because, to use his own ungracious phrase...
...hotel is well filled. In one room lives a ballet-dancer (Greta Garbo) who is bored by her art and her existence. Conveniently near, so that he can filch her pearls, is an attractive and impoverished Baron (John Barrymore). In a corridor, the Baron makes friends with a pretty stenographer (Joan Crawford). She is waiting to take dictation from a disagreeable textile tycoon (Wallace Beery). The tycoon, named Preysing, is so engrossed in dishonest tricks to escape financial ruin that he fails to recognize one of his own clerks. The clerk (Lionel Barrymore) is incurably ill; he has come...
What becomes of youngsters convicted under the Mann Act for their interstate sex experiments, of prankish urchins who break open a freight car or filch stamps from a rural post office...
Long and acid were the "whereases" and "therefores" in a resolution by sarcastic Senator Caraway of Arkansas which the Senate adopted unanimously last week. It mentioned "filch" and "unclean dollars" and "greedy pockets." It was aimed at Washington's Lobbyists-especially the modern type of lobbyist who gets fat fees by boasting how heavily he can influence the land's legislators.* The Judiciary Committee was instructed to investigate any and all lobbyists, the sources of their revenues, the purposes of their spendings. Hollow-eyed Senator Morris, the committee chairman, the Senate's most non-partisan member, weighed...
...present the "P. E." has put a small army of engineers in Palestine, to build dams, erect power stations and thus filch electricity from the biblical River Jordan. Since Pinchas Rutenberg is first and foremost a Zionist, the "P. E." is keeping a careful motion picture record of the Jordan "before and after." In so far as possible the engineering staff is kept 100% Hebrew, but Arabs are used for pick and shovel work...