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Twentieth Century (Columbia). This febrile saga of a journey on New York Central's crack train was a Broadway success last year (TIME, Jan. 9, 1933). Authors Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur transcribed it into cinema by thinking up new and fantastic situations, by enlarging to heroic proportions the...
What pleased me the other night more than the amusing play was the histrionic ability of The Stagers who perform in the unpretentious Peabody Playhouse. Francis Cleveland, who is the emotional and egotistical actor, Oscar Jaffe, is convincing as a paranoiac; Harriet Helm has enough charm, poise and intelligence to...
Enforcement officials had spent $500,000, waited two years to make their new accusations. They discovered that many a manufacturer of paints, varnishes, lacquers and disinfectants sells his products to customers who have nothing to paint or varnish, nothing to disinfect. By a process of distillation these bootlegging consumers remove...
About two years ago able Correspondent Hubert R. Knickerbocker of the New York Evening Post was visited in Berlin by a bald Russian with a trowel beard- Vladimir Orloff, onetime Councillor of State in the Imperial Russian Government. From him Reporter Knickerbocker obtained a number of letters purporting to show...
What happened later to change Herr Jaffe's mind is not recorded. But in Berlin last week Reporter Knickerbocker won a court injunction, forerunner of a libel suit, against a book just published: Murderers, Counterfeiters & Provocateurs, by Vladimir Orloff. In a preface to his client's volume, Herr...