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...Pursued by a marquis, an over-virile director and a wild-eyed studio publicity man named Space Hanlon (Lee Tracy), Lola's life is really no more than a negative for her pictures, a high-speed press for headlines. Hanlon has the marquis arrested for not renewing his passport; Lola gets the director to put up the bail. Before the screamer headlines on the first story have time to cool, Hanlon arranges for count and director to come to blows at Lola's house. The fight not only produces more headlines; it thwarts Lola's scheme, which...
Last December Sam Insull beat extradition when the Greek Court of Appeals turned down as insufficient the Illinois indictment for larceny and embezzlement (TIME. Jan. 9). In January the U. S. State Department cancelled his passport, left him a man without a country. He settled down comfortably in Athens, received visits from his family, ignored the disgrace that clouded his name...
...sunlight of St. Peter's Square. Some time later a Fascist militia officer wandered idly about the swarthy man standing near the great obelisk with his fingers in his ears. Almost immediately there was a great dusty explosion. Demetrio Solamon began to run like a rabbit, threw his passport into one of the plashing fountains, dived through the Bernini colonnade. Little damage was done to St. Peter's, but four Holy Year Pilgrims were slightly injured by the bomb. In his private library, 150 yards away, Pope Pius peered over his gold-rimmed spectacles, remarked that the noonday...
...Tschiffely, on a dark night, tried to drive his comrades over a precipice; their horse sense saved him. Once Gato refused to budge; Tschiffely found he was facing a quicksand. Tschiffely refuses to manufacture adventures, but admits that once he had to shoot in self-defense. He often had passport trouble and was occasionally taken for a spy, but by the time he reached Mexico City his fame had preceded him: he was given the honor of opening a bullfight. Though his kind of traveling was thirsty work, Tschiffely carried no water. "For my own use I had a flask...
State's population 1%. Jewish children were driven from public schools. In Bavaria, Baden, Thuringia, Württemberg, Hesse, the Nazis forbade kosher slaughtering of meat. The National Government forbade any Jew to leave Germany without special police permission stamped on his passport. Chief Engineer Walter Schaeffer of the Rundfunk Wireless Organization was dismissed from his post, committed suicide. Albert Einstein's bank deposits ($5,955 in securities, $1,191 in cash) were confiscated. The Professor announced that he would renounce his German citizenship...