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Late in 1931, Tony Gaudio had a spat with Director Lewis Milestone during the filming of The Front Page, walked off the set in a huff. For a year he couldn't get a job or even an interview despite his standing as one of the top cameramen in town. When Brother Jack Warner, whom he calls "Mr. Warner Brothers," finally hired him to shoot screen tests, Tony discovered the cold shoulder came from a whispering campaign that his eyesight was failing-the kiss of death for any cameraman. The rumor finally dispelled, Tony is now well back...
...extent in view of the fact that Germany had not yet put the screws on Spain to join the Axis. That the screws might soon be applied was evident from the arrival in Madrid last week of Heinrich Himmler, Chief of the efficient Gestapo. Colonel Beigbeder resigned in a huff, his Foreign Ministry going to Serrano Suner. If the Germans are to run Spain, as the potential liaison man Serrano took a step up. If not, down...
...Huff-puffed by dazzled Republicans were passages from Henry A. Wallace's Statesmanship and Religion (Round Table Press, 1934; $2): "The only people of this century who seem to have a comparable earnestness [to 16th-Century Reformers Luther, Calvin, Knox] are such men as Lenin, Mussolini and Hitler.*... I am inclined to agree with [British Historian Richard Henry] Tawney and [the late German Economist Max] Weber that capitalism is a rather natural outgrowth of Protestantism; arid I would go farther in saying that socialism, communism and fascism are in turn rather natural developments from capitalism. Spiritually, they...
...throat, offered his big London house to 90 homeless people (TIME, Sept. 30) but received a rebuff. The first family to arrive from East End slums were Jewish. On being told they might have what had been the bedroom of Hitler-admiring Miss Freeman-Mitford they left in a huff. But by last week Hon. Unity's bed was slept in by Jews...
Meanwhile, the fame of Clayton's revival of primitive arts spread far & wide. By last week, tourists had swamped Superintendent Huff and his students with orders for hand-carved furniture, pottery, rugs. Beaming happily on the industrious town, Raymond Huff said: "I'm thinking about the day when boys and girls from our school can marry and build their own homes just as we have built this school...