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...luck would have it, this week's pictures are poor. Like all of its predecessors, the "Big Broadcast," 1938 model, is a conglomeration of music, humor and specialty acts strung together by the merest phantom of a story. Hollywood's one and only William Clark Fields is sometimes funny but more often clumsy and silly as he struts about barking wise cracks and chewing his large cigar. At his best in a very unconventional game of golf, he provides the film with a few good moments; but when he is gone, there is little left. To be sure, here...
Idealist of War. On the afternoon of his appointment as Governor-General, plain John Buchan M. P. was having tea in the House of Commons when the division bell rang and a waiter warned him that he should go in and vote. For the merest instant a flicker of pride played on His Excellency's bloodless lips. "I ceased to be a member of this House," he told the waiter, "at 3 o'clock this afternoon...
...Dutch Premier last week made only the merest gesture toward any sort of New Deal. He tolerates as his Minister of Commerce & Industry a protege of Professor Aalberse, Professor Henri Gelissen, who will work out an acceptable plan for government subsidies to depressed Dutch businesses...
...Marquis has endeared himself to the U. S. by padding his critical punches; his fiercest uppercuts are the merest invigorating taps on a cheerfully welcoming chin. Many a critical reader of Chapters for the Orthodox will get no farther than Author Marquis's prefacing remarks, in which he dedicates his book to wambling Christopher Morley (because "I think you write better than anyone else writing in the English-speaking world today"). Less captious searchers will find something to hit their fancy in the twelve rambling tales that follow. Some of them...
...results of the "trial balloon" Literary Digest poll must come as a surprise to the average citizen who has received the impression during the last year that the government would satisfy his merest whim. The fact that industry and agriculture however, have not gained confidence from this policy is probably responsible for the Administration's declining popularity. Should these results be further tested by a nation-wide survey before Election...