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...Count Makino surrendered to the unceasing pressure brought against him by the Army men, pleaded a bad case of neuritis, resigned as Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal. The Emperor gave the job to the man Makino suggested: Viscount Admiral Makoto Saito, 77, one-time Premier. This tough but mellow oldster with a portentous pair of jowls can talk as moderately as Makino, but in a pinch he usually knuckles under to the militarists...
Author, Producer, Patriot, As every limelight-lover knows, any great public sensation may be readily capitalized for some personal publicity. Last week mellow Author Christopher Morley got his name in the papers by remarking over the radio: "We have seen only a few days ago, in a crowning humiliation, an example of publicity's cruel power. People can be killed with photographs as surely as with guns...
...Instead of this stock remedy, the company's chief agronomist, white-thatched, red-faced James Wilkes Jones, advised treating the soil itself. Upon examination he found that it consisted of nonporous and nonabsorbent substances. To rectify this, to get a soil that was ''friable, moist and mellow," he had ten tons of secret minerals churned into the soil by a special harrow and hopper-spreader. By September, after two months of semiweekly treatments, Agronomist Jones felt the best possible moisture control had been obtained. The surface, he proudly puffed, was "like an Oriental...
...Hippodrome world-famed. What justified Jumbo's extravagant ballyhoo was the fact that Mr. Rose has added all the mechanical and artistic improvements which the U. S. Theatre has evolved in the 15 years since the old Hippodrome ceased to function. Where the old Hippodrome shows provided such mellow music as Poor Butterfly, Mr. Rose's Jumbo was packed with more sophisticated tunes by Rodgers & Hart. Where the old Hippodrome shows raised spectators' hair with a troupe of girls who descended into a pool never to come up again, Mr. Rose exhibited his silvered and spangled idea...
...history of V. M. R. 0. was recounted by Stoyan Christowe in Heroes and Assassins, Last week U. S. readers were offered a translation of a remarkable Dutch novel in which the emotional aspects of life within the organization were more vividly and completely set forth. A melodramatic, yet mellow and human book, Express to the East presents a tragic picture of modern flesh & blood conspirators whose intense lives are sacrificed for the cause they have made their own. The author of Express to the East is almost as mysterious as the organization of which he writes. Den Doolard, which...