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...Week before, at the Washington dinner of the American Liberty League, Alfred Emanuel Smith had violently condemned the New Deal, threatened to "take a walk" on Election Day (TIME, Feb. 3). The official comeback to this blast was delivered last week by the Happy Warrior's old political pal Joseph Taylor Robinson, the Vice- Presidential stub to the 1928 Democratic ticket. Since that luckless campaign. Arkansas' senior Senator had acquired in Franklin Roosevelt a new master to serve and revere...
...donning buskin and sock in a felicitous double bill of "The Informer" and "Her Master's Voice". Victor McLaglen's astonishing ascent from his usual dead-pan broken-nose roles to his characterization of an informer in the Black and Tan uprisings in Dublin in 1922, giving away his pal to the police for the reward, attempting to drown his remorse in a night of mighty and generous carousal, and finally, confronted with the incontrovertible fact of his treachery, fleeing the vengeance of his pal's friends, only to be shot down and to die a bewildered repentant...
...irresponsible limb to whom blondes & brunettes mean the same thing, his escapades are matched only by the superintendent's reckless loyalty to him. Immediately Dizzy Davis sniffs suggestively at a luscious 19 -year-old aviatrix. To keep an engagement with her, he feigns a heart attack, has a pal (Stuart Erwin) pilot his run. In accordance with best make-believe traditions the pal strikes fog, and, with radio out of commission, bashes through high tension wires, squashes a hangar, dies. After considerable high jinks, Davis braves a storm to test a de-icer invention crashes to his death...
...subversive, she set the neighboring town of Dunmow on its ear, was sure to be found at the storm-centre of all industrial disturbances. Mill-owner Bly Emberson, sanctified by a lifetime of patient subservience to his steel-jacketed wife, fell in love with her. So did his lawyer pal, Derry. Ishma might well have thought she was a fatal woman: Bly drowned himself because of her while Britt was killed defending her fair name. Author Burke, true to her literary gods, cannot ring down on her heroine the curtain she deserves: the book ends with Ishma in her prison...
...color of the name "Coronado," which belongs to a most swanky hotel in Lower California, and the rhythm of Eddie Duchin, a Massachusetts boy who has made good in the grand style, fail to make the picture particularly exciting. There is an adorable collegiate youngster who is everybody's pal and puts tapioca in drain pipes; he doesn't exactly prepossess...