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Speaking before a capacity crowd in Adams House Junior Common Room last evening, Dr. Caelos Garcia Mata of the Argentine Embassy urged increased cooperation between the United States and Argentina in the form of a compromise on the importation of Argentina beef...
Second feature, British National Films' "Blackout," is an exciting, improbable yarn full of Nazi spics and modern Mata Haris. This bit of propaganda carries all the suspense of Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent," but it loses a good bit of punch by splitting the male lead amongst Conrad Veidt, the Union Jack, and Denmark's national anthem...
...herself, she tells the following: Born in Germany, Else LaRoe did Red Cross work during World War I at Lucerne, and there she met famed Spy Mata Hari (Margaretha Geertruida Zelle MacLeod), who, she recalls, had a perfect posture, a walk as slinky as a stripteaser's. Mata Hari was much interested in the surgery being done on a young French soldier whose nose had been mutilated. Else LaRoe watched the operation, too, and her interest in plastic surgery dawned. She went to Heidelberg's medical school, started on general surgery interspersed with birth-control work in Russia...
Suspicious foreigners suggested another possible reason for the order, that spy-conscious British diplomats feared their tars would fall into the hands of Uruguayan Mata-Haris...
Died. George Fitzmaurice, 55, Paris-born pioneer cinema director and writer; of streptococcic infection: in Los Angeles. He first made his name directing Pearl White in The Perils of Pauline, later directed such stars as Greta Garbo (Mata Hari), Gary Cooper (Peter Ibbetson), Ronald Colman (Raffles...