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...Hell Cat (Columbia), remotely derived from Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, concerns a spitfire heiress (Ann Sothern) and a hardboiled newshawk (Robert Armstrong). When the reporter slaps her face, she disguises herself by dyeing her hair, takes a job on his newspaper, maneuvers him out on her father's yacht so she can ridicule him to her friends. Suddenly she decides she loves him. Designed for second grade theatres and double feature programs, The Hell Cat is better entertainment than most Hollywood trivia of its class...
...instructor in the hard facts of their situation was to be Paul Martin Pearson, onetime professor of oratory, founder of the Swarthmore Chautauqua, father of Newshawk Drew Pearson Washington Merry-Go-Round. A kind and visionary old gentleman, Mr. Pearson became the first civil governor of the islands three years ago. The hard economic facts among the 22,000 Virgin islanders (93% Negro...
...winter of 1932-33 newshawks covering the President-elect first noted the formal relations between his daughter Anna and her husband, big, bald-browed Curtis Bean Dall. At the inauguration, Son-in-Law Dall put in a polite appearance, later visited the White House for a birthday party. Then the wiseacres of the Press had a surprise: not Daughter Anna but 22-year-old Son Elliott turned up in Nevada asking a divorce. Last week the Press finally got the news it had long expected. Mrs. Dall with Sistie and Buzzie slipped quietly out of the White House where...
...estate near Doom, onetime Kaiser Wilhelm von Hohenzollern told Newshawk Randolph Churchill, 22-year-old son of British Statesman Winston Churchill: "Chancellor Hitler has done a marvelous work in putting a new life and soul into the German nation. . . . The German people turned me out and if they want me back they will have to come and fetch...
Many an honest newshawk has joined the Guild during the past few months with the idea that it would somehow increase his pay, cut down his working hours, and, above all, make his job secure. Last week the Guild held its first real convention in St. Paul. The 100-odd delegates, most of whom as individualistic reporters had privately mocked the inanities of other people's conventions they had been sent to cover, behaved much the same as physicians or plumbers or politicians, gathered for an annual meeting. They talked loud about professional standards, damned ''company unions...