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Premier Prince Konoye is a great talker, a great reader (especially Japanese translations of U. S. books), an internationalist, an idealist who believes in the redistribution of property. A bundle of nerves, he is so fussy about hygiene that he sprinkles alcohol on an apple before eating it. He is a devotee of Kabuki, the Japanese dance-drama. He likes wrestling matches but takes no interest in Japanese baseball. Like his son Fumitaka at Princeton he is fond of golf, took it up ten years ago, got his handicap down to nine, then dropped the game. He is ready, however...
...rose Viscount Cecil, No. 1 exponent in Britain of the League of Nations and stager of the 11,000,000-vote Peace Ballot (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935). "This is a perfectly impossible combination of idealism!" Idealist Cecil warmly told Idealist Lothian. "The feeling in America against such a proposal would be overwhelming...
Walter Connolly is excellent as "Million-Dollar-Wolf" Craig alternately roaring at and soothing his spoiled daughter, Belinda, played by Mary Taylor, looking even more charming than she does on the pages of "VOGUE." John Harvard presents a sensitive young idealist as Bus" Jones, the college communist. The best performance is that of Lionel stander, who will be remembered for his work in another Hecht and MacArthur film, "The Scoundrel." He fills the role of Muglia, Belinda's kidnapper, who can carry Lenin and Stalin in his coat pocket, and still have room for Karl Marx; the scene in which...
With a gush of enthusiasm which will intensify the faith of the believer, but probably repel the skeptic, Author Strong surveys Soviet achievement, finds it all praiseworthy. Embarrassing inquiries she tackles with slippery candor. The Soviet Union sells oil to warring Italy because ''idealist gestures are dangerous." Political prisoners are not sentenced merely for expressing anti-Soviet views: "all were charged with definite action against the government." Convicts live and work in "labor camps" under such admirable conditions that some refuse to leave when their terms are up. Stalin has no dictatorial powers; he is just an exceptionally...
...happen before this play reaches print or a New York audience," says he in a postscript, "I do not know." That the nations of Europe still remained too scared or too smart to fight when Idiot's Delight appeared on Broadway last week must have gratified Robert Sherwood, Idealist, no less than Robert Sherwood, Showman...