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Roland Young and his ectoplasms are back again, doing some congenial caper-cutting on the French Riviera in United Artists' "Topper Takes a Trip." Those who missed the original "Topper" should neglect their education no longer, but whip right down to Loew's and have their fill of cigarettes being smoked in thin air and Roland Young reacting violently to invisible kicks. There are belly laughs a-plenty in the approved Hal Roach manner. Those who have been "Topper" may find that the humor of trick photography wanes after a while, for the essential humor of Thorne Smith's basic...
Tailspin (Twentieth Century-Fox). In its protracted series of aviation pictures, the cinema has shown men fliers at home and abroad, over sea and land, dead and alive. It has rarely, however, shown women fliers. Tailspin rectifies this neglect with a band of young women aviators (Alice Faye, Constance Bennett, Joan Davis, Nancy Kelly) engaged in transcontinental races, parachute jumps, spectacular crashes and the amatory adventures which, in the cinema, naturally accompany all such hazardous undertakings...
...twelve feet high and the beasts nearly covered its walls. Around 1773 the hall was remodelled to permit the erection of a large staircase, and its weird, barbarous decorations were covered with plaster. In the nineteenth century, when the building had passed into private hands and fallen into neglect, the roof collapsed and the plaster began to crumble away. Fortunately, about ten years ago, the paintings were removed before they had been ruined by the weather. Two of them, a superb lion and a winged serpent, now flank the doorway of the entrance of the Cloisters, a newly opened branch...
Mutinous Precedent. Briefly revived in Manhattan last week was the ill-famed "Mutiny on the Algic." Three Algic sit-downers (Seamen Clegg Lowder, Rubel Stewart, James Lampkin) pleaded guilty to "willful neglect of duty," awaited punishment befitting a misdemeanor. Because the U. S. Government owned the Algic (but leased it to a private operator), the freighter's C. I. O. crew got into trouble with U. S. authorities last year for staging a sit-down aboard ship at Montevideo, Uruguay. Fourteen were subsequently charged with mutiny, convicted in Baltimore, given 30 to 35 days in jail. The Government accepted...
...Russia last week rolled rumors of another impending famine. Many store shelves in Moscow were again reported empty. Travelers from the provinces said that food was scarce even in some rich agricultural sections. Soviet newspapers had recently criticized the widespread neglect of agricultural machinery, and failure to provide proper fuel for tractors, binders, harvesting machines. The Soviet Union's last famine, in 1933, was caused by peasant opposition to Dictator Stalin's collectivization program. The present agricultural difficulties seem to be caused: 1) by the chaotic conditions in the much-purged Commissariat of Agriculture; 2) by an attempt...