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Hollywood's Gone With the Wind arrived in Washington last week. For the second night's performance a mysterious, big-hearted donor bought out the Palace Theatre, resold the 2,357 seats at $3 to $10 each and turned over the $13,000 net profit to Herbert Hoover's Finnish relief fund...
...show business was agog with its latest, greatest cause. Special Finnish-benefit performances were announced for eleven Broadway hits, near-hits and near-flops. Stars and casts voted overwhelmingly to donate their talents, provide Mr. Hoover with more money to cable to Helsinki. Only the casts of Tobacco Road and a four-months something called See My Lawyer refused. Newspapers came through with oodles of publicity, especially Mr. Hearst's Bolshevik-hating press...
...Finland. Sortavala is the junction of two railroads, one leading north to Finland's waist, which the Russians have been trying to cut, the other going southwest to Viipuri and the Mannerheim Line, which the Russians have been trying to storm. Through this town pass Finnish troops withdrawn from one front to reinforce the other. If Russia had Sortavala, the mobility of the Finnish Army would be dangerously curtailed and Russia would have a railroad on which to drive toward Viipuri. For two months the Russians have been trying to take this town. Last week their effort had developed...
...week long the Russians pounded at the Finnish lines along the Aittojoki and the Kollaanjoki (joki is Finnish for river), northeast of Sortavala. They fought valiantly, desperately, for behind them the Finns were beginning to close in, ahead of them the Finns had already trapped two divisions of their comrades. These two beleaguered Russian divisions were at Kitela, only 24 miles east of Sortavala, and had been there for weeks. Using the same tactics that had won at Suomussalmi (TIME, Jan. 22), the Finns had first retreated, then made a stand at Kitela, while encircling forces cut the Russian supply...
Asked to write a plea for Herbert Hoover's Finnish relief fund, crusty old Author Theodore Dreiser replied: "I am not just another American propaganda sucker," added: "If our papers do not lie, and they never lie, it is the Russians who seem to need help against the Finns...