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To start things off with a bang, Publisher Gollancz gave charter members two books for the price of one as the Left Book Club's May issue. For their 2s.6d. (60?), the 5,000 initial subscribers received a timely study called France Today and the People's Front...
In "The widow from Monte Carlo," with Dolores Del Rio and Warren William, there is much conniving and excited scheming concerning a Duchess (Dolores) who wants to get away from her stiff-necked relatives and friend (Colin Clive) to whom she is engaged. Warren William, who kisses her twice before...
Acoustics engineers were called in, deadened the echoes by hanging crimson velvet curtains between each of the columns. This shut out so much light that the Justices found they could not see to read. Elaborate chandeliers were dropped from the ceiling. They shone in the Justices' eyes. Finally a...
On view in Manhattan last week were 31 which included: a lazy peon sound asleep on the back of a patient donkey, his head on a blanket of bright green broccoli; a toothsome slant-eyed dancing girl, pigtails and red skirts whirling; a bug-eyed Mussolini, giving the Fascist salute...
Oddest of all is the zebra-like okapi, a kind of short-necked giraffe so rare that it is usually caught only by native pygmies with pitfalls.