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Jacques La Grange, British subject of French parentage, who has lived in the U. S. since 1916, gave an exhibition last week at Manhattan's Babcock Galleries. The paintings, of ships, of skyscrapers, occasionally of ships and skyscrapers were technically inept, showed an excellent color sense. Critics compared them to the oilpaint fumblings of Colyumist Heywood Broun last week on view and for sale at the Weyhe Galleries, called them promising, uninteresting. Much more interesting was Painter La Grange's method of disposing of his pictures...
Recaptured Love (Warner). Dedicated to the proposition that there is no fool like an old fool, this shows how a clever wife handles an aging husband's infatuation with a younger woman. No new twist is given the theatrical stencil except the inept title which, proclaiming the denouement, effectively checkmates suspense. On the stage it was Misdeal, a play by Basil Woon. Belle Bennett and John Halliday are in it. Best sequence: Miss Bennett teasing the husband who wants to come home...
...Caxton Hall, London, Mr. Baldwin began his fight with a vigor and alertness which flabbergasted as much as it pleased his friends. As Prime Minister the shaggy sheep dog was often lazy, muddling and inept-sometimes disgracefully so. On a public platform during the "Lord's Prayer," he would fiddle with his notes twitch his nose or scratch his ear (instead of praying), and later he would cross one leg over the other and look bored (instead of standing on both feet and joining in "God Save the King"). Indeed as Prime Minister, Mr. Baldwin resembled exactly an amiable...
...Inept Professor Moldenhauer estimated when he brought the Budget in that it would exactly balance. Last week he discovered instead a deficit of $178,800,000. Members of the Brüning Government, a "Cabinet of Nobodies," know well enough that their tenure of power is dependent on the will and prestige of HINDENBURG. Sheepishly in the Red House the Chancellor was understood to have proposed that Germany's famed "Iron Man," Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, recently Director of the Reichsbank, should be made Finance Minister...
Daugherty, Stone, Sargent. Almost at once the Drys became dissatisfied with this arrangement. They quickly discerned a hiatus between the Treasury's arrests and the Department of Justice's prosecutions. Evidence collected by Treasury agents was inept, failed to stand up in court. Little or no cooperation between the departments developed. Complaints began to arise against Secretary Mellon whom the Drys suspected of being, at best, only lukewarm toward Prohibition. A change to the Department of Justice, the Government's enforcing arm for all other Federal criminal statutes (except those of the Post Office Department) was soon...