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...Constituent Assembly is expected to be convened within a month. It is regarded as certain that Reza Kahn will then be elected to head whatever form of government is determined upon. Conflicting rumors assert that he favors: 1) A republic patterned after that now headed in Turkey by Mustapha Kernel Pasha. 2) The installation of himself as "Shahinshah,"* with the full original implications of the title. Since Reza Kahn is an extremely adept politician, U.S. observers opined that he would find the office of President well suited to his talents if not to his vanity...
...have come to hand. Possibly because the reviewer spoke of the Chicken-Wagon Family (TIME, Sept. 21) as "an unforgetable book"; of Five Oriental Tales (TIME, Sept. 14) as ". . . keen-edged. . . glinting fine irony"; of The Perennial Bachelor (TIME, Sept. 7) as "... ripe fruit juicy pulp, rigid pit, tart kernel...
More credit to her for never relinquishing, save when artistically imperative, a gay, bubbling spirit that is far to seek these days. The book itself is ripe fruit-juicy pulp, rigid pit, tart kernel...
Zander the Great. A lovely nurse girl trying to find among Arizona badmen the father of her tiny ward is the kernel of this tale. It is fed forth with all the usual garnishings of hard riding, sheriffs and a sand storm. Early pictures of the nurse girl struggling to escape from an orphanage had little bearing on the general scheme but were nevertheless the most interesting. Marion Davies is starred and gives an extraordinarily good performance at first, that thins down to the close-up of a lovely maiden type of playing...
...kernel is sound. A young man who lives and breathes only for syncopation marries into a dry-goods family with emporiums the country over. For four years he is bound by the chain store shackle. The family still regard him as a cheap actor, a low comedian, a gutter snipe. He makes the obvious burst and, as the final curtain falls, is headed for Broadway and a career of sound public service as a song-and-dance...