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...with the stumbling Chinese dollar, Council Chairman Cornell S. Franklin announced his intention of resigning. Cornell Franklin hails from Mississippi, home State of Author William Faulkner (who is married to Cornell Franklin's first wife). A good sport and a fighting gentleman, Cornell Franklin has transplanted the South-mint juleps, hunting dogs, polo, a white house with a proper portico-right to cosmopolitan Shanghai. He and his pretty second wife are tired of all this warrin' and ready for a little Reconstruction...
Last week the 5,114-ton Russian motor-ship Kim put into San Francisco from Vladivostok, unloaded $5,600,000 of gold bullion, sold it to the San Francisco mint. First gold shipped directly from Russia to the U. S. since 1937, it was a mere twentieth of the $101,900,000 of Russian gold bought by the U. S. (through other countries) in that time. Kim's arrival served Senator Vandenberg with occasion for lambasting the Administration's gold policy ("Folly ... we do not want the gold") on the floor of the Senate. But to newsmen...
...endorse a cigaret, because he does not smoke and his vast fandom knows it. But he gum-chews like a kraut cutter. So last Sunday night Gene Autry went to work at $1,000 a week on a new half-hour radio show over CBS for Double Mint gum, replacing Wrigley's Gateway to Hollywood series of last year. First time out on radio's Melody Ranch, Gene lassoed the folks with I'm ridin' the range all day, Poundin' the plains all day Ridin' until my bones are weary . . . Ridin' my life...
Then he galloped through a foam-flecked drama of the range country calculated to make Autry votaries champ their Double Mint in double-quick time...
...original cast that appeared on Broadway, but for entertainment purposes they might have been just as well as not. Elizabeth Love, playing Cindy Lou, has none of the hamish inclinations which far too many road actresses have. She gives a performance that hits above specifications, combining magnolia-and-mint-julep sweetness with the righteous violence of a "snit" to make a very believable and likeable Cindy...