Word: reproofs
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...Terror of Tiny Town (Jed Buell). "If this economy drive keeps on, we'll end up using midgets for actors." To hefty, thrifty Movie Producer Jed Buell this crack of a subordinate was intended as a reproof. Instead it gave him an idea. Soon he was collecting all the midgets he could reach through agencies, advertisements, radio broadcasts ("big salaries for little people"). They drifted in by twos and threes. From Hawaii came a troupe of 14. At length he had 60 of them, averaging three-feet-eight in height, about 70 Ibs., ranging in age from...
...which the U. S. was a party. Obviously, it would never do for the Secretary of State to admit that his Government, in however small a detail, * had actually committed a technical breach of a treaty, and Mr. Hull did not do so. Instead, he launched into a long reproof of Columnist Pearson which, contrary to all State Department press conference convention, was handed out for full quotation. Excerpts...
...TIME'S reviewer no reproof: He did not say Belbenoit wrote a bad book. Stranded in San Francisco last July, René Belbenoit wrote Explorer William LaVarre in Manhattan, who took him East, arranged for publication of his book. His first job was to pass on the accuracy of Devil's Island scenes in The Life of Emile Zola. If he gets a pardon from the French Government, as he hopes, ex-Convict Belbenoit plans to go back to France, return to the U. S. under the quota...
...Mayer officials had propped up dead Actor Robert McWade (TIME, Jan. 31), photographed the back of his head to complete a scene in Of Human Hearts. To backers of New York's proposed Berg Bill, designed to bring radio slander under the libel laws, Hollywood's resounding reproof of Gossiper Garrett brought great satisfaction; to harebrained radio gossipers, pause...
...reproof to TIME'S Press Editor for a sluggish description of the muddy Thames...