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...role of her life just when she needed it most. Dodsworth, a forthright investigation of a universal problem, tells the story of a man battling to save his marriage from his wife's desire to keep young by cutting amorous capers. Sam sold his Revelation Motor Co. because Fran (Ruth Chatterton) wanted to go abroad and have some fun. Fun's first embodiment, a handsome shipmate, sharpened her eagerness by telling her quite frankly what he thought of women who began flirtations they were not prepared to finish. With Arnold Iselin (Paul Lukas) she finished her next...
Some time in the next seven years Dr. Charcot came to feel that his true calling was not medicine but exploration. In 1903 he left for the Antarctic in a small vessel called the Français, explored the Palmer Archipelago. Back in France, he built a ship which was then regarded as the last word in polar exploration vessels. This was the Pourquoi Pas ("Why Not"), a 140-ft. three-master of 449 tons, equipped with both sail and steam and reinforced for icebreaking. In 1908 he took the Pourqnoi Pas to the Antarctic, explored...
...Berlin one morning last week, brisk and rich little French Ambassador Andre François-Poncet was invited to the Wilhelmstrasse, cordially received by large and wealthy German Foreign Minister Baron Constantin von Neurath, and handed a most welcome communication. This was Germany's formal adherence to the embargo prohibiting arms shipments to Spain (TIME, Aug. 17) which was originally proposed by the new French Cabinet of Socialist Premier Léon Blum, promptly accepted by Britain and belatedly agreed to fortnight ago by Italy. After a beaming exchange of compliments, the French Ambassador hurried off to flash...
...ousted board of Regents are some of France's best financial brains, including François de Wendel (coal, steel, munitions), the Marquis de Vogüe (Suez Canal Co.. chemicals). President René Duchemin of the French Manufacturers' Association, Robert Darblay (paper), Louis Blanc (casinos) and Ernest Mallet, current representative of a banking family which has had a member on the board since the Bank's foundation, 136 years ago. To gether the old Regents are worth probably 7,000,000,000 francs...
...strong were the nerves of French Fascists that when Socialist Blum drastically decreed suppression of their leagues last week, No. 1 Fascist Colonel François de la Rocque replied that the decree was illegal and would be fought to a finish in the courts. "There are still judges in France!" cried the Colonel, instead of ordering his Fascists into the streets. "From tomorrow we become a political party. If the Government opposes, its action will be equivalent to the proclamation of a Communist and Socialist dictatorship. In this case the Head of the State will have to recognize...