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...lame British spinster of 60 whom many a religionist considers the greatest preacher of her sex in the world - Dr. A. (for Agnes) Maude Royden. She arrived in Manhattan last week, proceeded to Baltimore for the first speech of a tour which will take her to San Fran cisco and back...
...last week the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures re-leased its annual lists of the best pictures of the year. Picked as the best made anywhere in the world was La Kermesse Héroïque (TIME, Oct. 5), winner of the Grand Prix du Cinema Français, produced in France by Tobis, directed by Jacques Feyder, released in the U. S. last autumn. Ihe Board of Review's list of the ten best pictures made in Hollywood...
...Right press scoffed this week that, of course, he did not commit suicide, and the Royalist Action Française accused the Left of "exploiting a dead body." Numbers were on the side of the Left and of suicide, however, and all over France workers by hundreds, then thousands, turned out to parade with banners such as "GRINGOIRE ASSASSINATED SALENGRO!", "FASCISM HAS KILLED SALENGRO!", "TO JAIL WITH SALENGRO'S SLAYERS...
...Premier forced him out of Havas. Under the new law the Premier's own newsorgan, Le Populaire, will have to print that it is largely subsidized by the Socialist Party: L'Humanité will have to print that it is subsidized by the Communist Party; the Action Française will have to print that it is subsidized by the Royalist Party- and none of these three Paris papers will mind in the least. They constitute openly the bought and kept press of the pinks, the Reds and the bluebloods, but who keeps M. Guimier and most...
...nations were entered in the jumping events. For the first international event on the program, for which competition lasted three nights, riders were judged on form after a succession of difficult individual and group jumps. In first place after the first night's performance were the French (Captain François Durand and Lieutenant Amador de Busnel), with 19 faults to 23 each for Chile, Great Britain and the U. S. Jumping in pairs the next evening, the French team was charged ½ a fault, when Captain Durand and Captain Pierre Clave were a step out of alignment...