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...girls in a freight train (TIME, June 22). He denounced these sentences as "legal lynching," demanded that the black boys be retried by a black jury. Into such a frenzy of excitement and protest did he whip his audience that they were openly threatening the life of Governor Benjamin Meek Miller unless he released the condemned...
...staged so much in the spirit of good clean Will-Haysian fun that it loses even the little vitality it had in the stage piece, Apron Strings, from which the scenario is adapted. Expert playing manages to make the story funny in a way that is partly meek, partly blatant. Nugent does not begin to behave humanly until friends have taken his mother's letters away from him. Jean Arthur, Allison Skipworth and Tully Marshall all work hard, and their combined efforts might have made a very funny piece indeed if the producers had had nerve. Typical sequence...
Seldom have so many famed flyers gathered together as in a banquet room of Manhattan's Hotel Roosevelt one night last week. There were bronzed "Lon" Yancey, meek-looking Clarence Chamberlin, debonair Col. Fitzmaurice and his rescuer, sturdy Bernt Balchen, nearly bursting out of a tight dinner jacket. There were beauteous Ruth Elder Camp, mop-headed Amelia Earhart Putnam, and the recluse Lindbergh; Armand Loti of the Yellow Bird who came from France to be present that night; Rear Admiral Byrd, Frank Courtney, Harry Connor. (Brock & Schlee, too, would have been there had they not been forced down flying...
PETTICOAT INFLUENCE-Helen Hayes as the meek wife of a diplomat who takes a few leaves out of the diplomat's book...
Richard Chalfont (John Williams of One, Two, Three!) has all the qualifications for Colonial Secretary to a small island. He has lived there, knows the language and people, has written thick books about the place. In addition he has an admirable wife, charming, meek little Helen Hayes. But the Earl of Darnaway has already promised the job to one of his wife's relations, a gentleman of title, many debts, not much sense. Fortunately Miss Hayes discovers that the Countess of Darnaway has had an affair with her husband's aide...