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...catastrophe sequence comes when Irene and Dumond, hearing an innocent man has been arrested for Dumond's supposed crime, start back to Paris on a Vail liner making its maiden voyage. To imperil them. Tycoon Vail phones his captain to strive for a record crossing, in spite of pea-soup fog and icebergs. The disaster, supervised for seafaring technique by Sea Captain Frederick Fleugal and for special effects by James Basevi (San Francisco), is a reproduction of the sinking of the Titanic. The best shot in the picture-the horrible apparition of the fatal berg through...
...right. He was last week the absolutely ideal Prime Minister to weather an English crisis by applying precisely those qualities of bulldog smugness which have strewn his career in foreign affairs with disaster after disaster and are today threatening to gum the works of British Rearmament and imperil the Empire (TIME, Nov. 23 et ante). Again & again Mr. Baldwin has told the House of Commons that "my lips are sealed" until this has become a 1936 British byword for hypocrisy. Came last week, however, the Supreme Crisis in which the curiosity of the world had to be kept unsatisfied...
...objects: 1) to dissuade Britain from supporting oil sanctions which he believes would ignite a European war to the particular disadvantage of Belgium; 2) to make sure that Belgium is a party to any further secret British-German dickering which might weaken still more the Treaty of Versailles and imperil Belgium further...
...unless she was in their service before the Nurnberg Laws were passed, in which case she must be not less than 35. A family of Jewesses only is not a "Jewish family" and may keep whatever maids they like, but one Jew in the house is considered to imperil the German maid's morals and the decree becomes operative. Jews may keep German manservants but this the State discourages without forbidding...
...Blake's is a definite achievement. He has recreated the country of Billy the Kid. He has an attachment for the Southwest that is deep in his blood, but it is to be hoped he will not run the danger of so restricting himself to the district as to imperil his writings about other sections, and that when and if he turns to fiction he will not have become typed. For American literature is in need of writers as unassuming and yet as penetrating as is Mr. Blake in "Riding the Musiang Trail...