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...FAIR?Captain Henry Landau? Putnam ($3). "By far the greater majority of those who were employed by the British Secret Service in the occupied territories of Belgium and France, and in Germany, worked directly under me as their immediate Chief in the Field." So says Captain Henry Landau in beginning a detailed but never tedious record of the British spy system operating from Holland. Though no braggart, the author is not given to false modesty, takes honest pride in the achievements of himself and the men and women who risked a firing squad under his orders...
Born in the Transvaal of a Dutch mother, an English father, Henry Landau's first vivid recollections are of the Boer War. Two languages were his by inheritance. German he acquired later as a boy at school in Dresden. In his travels about Europe he improved his French, picked up Flemish. He graduated from Cambridge where "scholastically I was a brilliant success," went in for engineering (Colorado School of Mines, London School of Mines). When the War came he joined an ambulance unit, was transferred to the artillery where he rose to a captaincy. When in 1916 British espionage...
...croup. In the autumn Ollie is sent away to town. In the winter Doris flirts with Stan while his barn burns. The spring is a peaceful season. Doris is about to go away with Stan, George Shaw's wife starts to have another baby and Mark Shaw (David Landau) declines an invitation to the movies from his daughter Jen. Before summer comes again, Jen and Stan are in the buggy, on their way to church...
...squabble painful to U. S. Jewry developed over the proceeds ($15,000 net) of a charity banquet to be given in honor of shy, universal-minded Albert Einstein in Manhattan March 15 when it developed that Jacob Landau of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency had approached more than one organization before getting American Friends of the Hebrew University in Palestine to serve as sponsor for the feast. Said the Seven Arts Feature Syndicate (Jewish): "Mr. Landau . . . tied up Professor Einstein's appearance and then peddled his offers to various organizations on a commission basis." In the general clamor to find...
...trusting old fellow who runs a cabaret and modest little white slave business. Having a bit of time to spare Mae befriends a young would-be suicidess, visits some ex-beaus who are taking the cure at Sing Sing, juggles with the attentions of Gigolo Gilbert Roland, Racketeer David Landau and Salvation Army Captain Gary Grant. Complications begin when Beery hijacks the suicidess for his Barbary Coast trade, when Mae plants a dirk in the gigolo's mistress. Simultaneously the Salvationist has been ascertaining to his own satisfaction that his Mae means well. By the time he turns...