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Without realizing that they have made their point, the producers of The Man I Married then go on to labor it by: 1) bringing in a U. S. newshawk (Lloyd Nolan) to act as a sort of male Dorothy Thompson; 2) making her husband (Francis Lederer) not only a Nazi but a philanderer. The Man I Married will remain notable for one monumentally silly line. When Miss Bennett finally walks out on her Hitler-happy husband, she sticks out her right arm, shrills: "Heil, heel...
...Columnist Robert Kintner and Newshawk Turner Catledge of the New York Times had seen the message. Word quickly spread-and by the time bumble-tumble Mr. Barkley began bellowing at 9 p.m. C. D. S. T., only galleryites and radio listeners wondered what he was going...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Christian Fichthorne Reisner, 68, founder and pastor of Manhattan's Broadway Temple Methodist Church; after a gallstone operation; in Manhattan. Onetime Kansas newshawk, Dr. Reisner startled sophisticated New Yorkers with his promotion schemes to "sell" religion (billboard advertising, Broadway entertainers in the pulpit, hymn-whistling services, preaching in costume) succeeded in raising $3,000,000 for his skyscraper church (still unfinished) before the 1929 crash...
...Japan's crowded list of public enemies, few rate higher than burly, tousled, tough-tongued, 39-year-old Carroll Duard Alcott, who broadcasts thrice daily from Shanghai bold news & views on matters Asiatic. A veteran American newshawk from Des Moines, who has covered a China beat for the past 13 years, Alcott took to the air at the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese hostilities. Tokyo has lost face almost every time he has opened his mouth. Last week he was one of the six Americans whom Japan's puppet Chinese Government "ordered" expelled from China. Last week...
...complex belief, expressed by Newshawk Marquis W. Childs, St. Louis Post-Dispatch correspondent, that "in his heart of hearts he is a sad man, having seen through the illusions and futilities of his time. Nevertheless, he has the courage to be cheerful and to do good in the sight of God. This theory endows Mr. Roosevelt with the humility of true greatness...