Word: mr
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only country which can today actively resist Fascism, says Mr. Mumford, and it should be prepared to "accept the challenge of democratic leadership." He recommends, first of all, noncooperation with the "exploiting classes in England and France in their policy of appeasing Fascism." Says he: "To cooperate with a Chamberlain is to invite upon our own heads a betrayal similar to that which Czechoslovakia encountered...
...Britain this condition seemed not only a reasonable but a necessary one. The French Government is anxious to get the 380,000 Spanish refugees now in France back into Spain. Moreover, wholesale executions and arrests following a surrender arranged by the French and British Governments might be embarrassing to Mr. Chamberlain and M. Daladier at home...
...predominantly Moslem Northwest Frontier Province there is all but total prohibition. The Mohammedan religion bars alcohol, and its followers who want to lighten their immediate burdens take narcotics. In none of these places, however, are Europeans prevented from making, selling or buying liquor for their own consumption. For all Mr. Patel cares, the British can drink themselves to death with their chotapegs (half portions of Scotch whisky...
...Universal). Confronted with the task of making a picture in which W. C. Fields is the star, most Hollywood producers harass themselves and Mr. Fields by trying to chivy him into playing the part written for him, instead of letting him alone in his own classic interpretation of W. C. Fields. In this case, Producer Lester Cowan shrewdly devised a new technique. Instead of paying his stars a salary, he persuaded them to work on a profit-sharing basis, had Fields write his own story and let matters take their course. The result was that the shooting...
...whole project was accompanied by riotous lack of discipline, and its completion was the signal for two of the liveliest Hollywood parties of the season, one given by Edgar John Bergen for the whole cast, and the other by the Masquers Club in honor of Mr. Fields. At the latter, Dr. Leo Rosten, making a Carnegie Corporation survey of the cinema industry, paid touching tribute to the guest of honor: "Any man who hates babies and dogs can't be all bad." Not the least astonishing thing about You Can't Cheat an Honest Man is that...