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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. General Jean-Marie-Joseph Degoutte, 72, "hero of the Second Battle of the Marne" (Château-Thierry); in Charney, France...
...Jean Françaix: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Paris Philharmonic, Nadia Boulanger conducting, with the composer at the piano; Victor: 4 sides). One of the friskiest foals in the Parisian paddock. 26-year-old Composer Françaix is as yet practically unknown to U. S. listeners. His neat, chattering concerto is the most skilful bit of musical window-dressing that has been exported from Paris in a long time...
...succeed President Frothingham the I. B. A. chose a banker from as far away from Wall Street as possible - sunburned, zestful Jean Carter Witter of the California firm of Dean Witter and Co. At 46, Jean Witter is the crack security salesman of the Pacific Coast. Said Banker Witter last week: "I should like to put down as the first item on our schedule for 1938-39 - work with the SEC in carrying out the objectives of the securities legislation it is obligated to administer...
...train in a town resembling Emporia, Kans., takes up residence in the county jail at the invitation of the kind-hearted constable (Irvin S. Cobb). Finding confusion in the affairs of the town newspaper run by Martha Allen (Fay Bainter), he ends it by putting things right between Judy (Jean Parker) and her hotheaded boy friend (John Beal), unmasking the town crook (Lyle Talbot) and building a radio station. Principal cinema attribute of the late Will Rogers was to make it seem that Right not only triumphed on all occasions but that it did so without working up a perspiration...
...contempt shown by the Dionnes for the story of Five of a Kind is by no means inexcusable. The cinema struggle to fit such curiosities into a plausible narrative always includes Jean Hersholt, as Dr. Luke, and John Qualen in a somewhat libelous interpretation of the squintuplets' father. Five of a Kind winds this amorphous group into a tangled web of rivalry and romance between two ill-mannered newspaper and radio commentators (Claire Trevor and Cesar Romero). Best shot: all five Dionnes sneering at kindly Actor Hersholt...