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...Ordered the policeman: "Move on." Sleepy Senator Reynolds, who is trying to prove that he can tour 9,000 miles of the U. S. at a cost of $100 per person, climbed out, drove to another street. Next morning a garageman reported that Senator Reynolds & friends, annoyed by the patter of rain on their roof, had left in a taxicab, spent the night at a hotel. "We spent the night right here!" bristled the Senator. Welcoming cameramen in his sumptuous trailer, he led them through sleeping quarters and study to the galley, where he rolled up his sleeves, draped...
...costumed melodrama of Mississippi riverboat life with Rogers as a steamboat captain, Steamboat Round the Bend in patter and pattern supplies historians with little new light on the Rogers saga. However, in addition to assuring cinemaddicts that they may still enjoy the dead actor as much as they ever did while he was alive, the picture presents a Hollywood name which may one day take its own place in cinema's sun. That, at 59, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb becomes a minor cinema star is not entirely due to the fact that the Cobb countenance closely resembles a bull frog...
...adaptable than other Greeks last week was a parrot in an Athenian cafe, trained to talk in happier times and not one to forget old tricks quickly. Over and over, to everybody's horror, he kept screaming with pride, "Hurray for Venizelos! Death to his enemies!" Once this patter had earned him crackers. Last week it got him a slit throat...
Last week, after days of rigmarole surrounding a "mysterious woman in black," Cartoonist King completed the cycle back to the patter of baby feet. In his parked automobile Walt Wallet discovered a new baby and a note. Excerpts...
Johannes Steel (a pen name for a German exile who headed the German industrial espionage) tells us in his new book, "The Next World War," just published, that all this Aryan-anti-Jewish patter in Germany is a scheme to make the Germans forget their own class warfare--to weld them into one united family. Elsewhere we are informed that the Nordic-Teutonic stage business is to cover the plan to forge northern and central Europe into a self-contained economic confederation. See the Rosenberg plan in Ernst Henri's book "Hitler Over Europe...