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...lira will be forced off the gold standard. Abroad many a headline writer splashed ITALY GOES OFF GOLD TO PAY FOR WAR! Actually Italy has not been on a true gold standard for some years, and last week's decree did not unhook the lira from its pegged relation to gold which II Duce has sworn to defend, and Italian Government bonds, after weakening, closed a week's end at their previous levels. In the money marts of London, Manhattan and Paris wiseacres opined that a year or more may pass before the lira lapses into danger...
...Parliament and approved by Governor-General the Earl of Bessborough was a bill whose provisions represented a complete policy somersault. The measure abolishes the present pool, substituting for it a three-man wheat board appointed by the Prime Minister. The Board is not to continue the present wheat price-peg (80¢) but has the power to fix a minimum price at which it will buy wheat from Dominion farmers. Since the minimum price may often be less than the market price, wheat farmers are to receive participating certificates entitling them to share in the Board's profits, if any. More...
Most of the 60-odd characters are a queer lot. Catherine's greatest friends were a retired courtesan, a worn-out sea captain, and the gravedigger's daughter, who was considered hardly decent because her only dress was a sack. At the inn where peg-legged Pamploix spent his evenings the innkeeper's wife was so squint-eyed that habitues would order a drink from one end of the bar, then slink quickly to the other end, where the drink would be served. It was the great ambition of the baker's old father, a paralytic...
...Informer (RKO). When considering the Irish, the fixed policy of Hollywood in the past has been to do so in terms of either Abie's Irish Rose or Peg o' My Heart. Consequently, any picture of which the Irish hero is neither a rustic clown nor a cow-eyed crooner with a rush of brogue to the face can be classed immediately as a daring experiment. The Informer, of which the hero is a drunken, overgrown, dull-witted and cowardly Dublin bully, is a daring experiment and considerably more. Adapted by Dudley Nichols from Liam O'Flaherty...
Arthur Szathmary '37 will play the part of the Welsh clergyman, John Williams, while Miss Miriam Hurwitt will act the role of his wife, Minnie. A genuine wooden peg leg will form part of Miss Hurwitt's costume. Miss Lois Hall, dressed in girlish white, will appear as Gladys, the refined young evil spirit of the piece...