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...Mice and Men (by John Steinbeck: produced by Sam H. Harris), like the best-seller it faithfully follows, takes a squinty look at life among the bindle stiffs, reports out of the side of its mouth in short, hair-raising words. A soundly written, expertly produced play, its close-knit suspense timed to the last held breath, it seemed fated by first-nighters' extraordinary enthusiasm to extraordinary success. Some partisans, reading between its hard-bitten lines a sweeping social preachment, freely prophesied that it would win the Pulitzer Prize. Even those who saw in it only a macabre folk...
...dainty little Rose Markward married a knit-goods salesman named Charles Briggs Knox who had precisely $11 left after he had paid the minister. By 1889 the thrifty Knoxes had saved $5,000, invested every cent of it in a tiny gelatine works at Johnstown, N. Y. Last week the 325 employes of the Knox gelatine works joined in presenting 80 yellow roses in a Tiffany vase to Rose Markward Knox as "a birthday remembrance and a token of love, loyalty and appreciation from her business family." This was no empty gesture, for Mrs. Knox, despite her 80 years, still...
...school by the Revolution. In Moscow, vivacious Mrs. Munters, a typically irrepressible Russian of pre-Revolution type, promptly taxed Stalin to his face with general religious intolerance and particular oppression of the Church in Russia. Not thus challenged in years by anyone, male or female, Dictator Stalin knit his brows, finally replied: "Mrs. Munters, we in the Soviet Union seek to advance Culture, and Culture has nothing to do with Religion...
...Polish Violinist Bronislaw Hubermann broke bones in his left arm and right hand. "I shall never be able to play again," he moaned, "but thank God nothing worse happened to me!" Doctors assured him, however, that since his muscles did not appear to have been injured, his bones would knit, his playing probably would not be impaired. In great artistic anxiety, he canceled a tour of Java and Palestine, planned to go to Vienna for treatment. Week later Violinist Hubermann was in Bandoeng, Java, laid low by an attack of pneumonia that endangered his life...
...Toast of New York" ranks high in entertainment, low as an artistic production. One fact probably follows from the other. For while a cast including Edward Arnold, Frances Farmer, Cary Grant, and Jack Oakie aims to please every taste, presence of such diverse and typed stars would without well-knit plot tend to disrupt any film into a series of bit performances. Such actually takes place, as the producers did not make out over well with their plot...