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Owen D. Young retold the story of General Electric's Insull loans, of his efforts to bring about a standstill agreement among banks that were owed $80,000,000 by the Insull companies (TIME, April 18). Mused he: "I think Samuel Insull was very largely the victim of the complicated structure that he created. Capable though he was, he was unable to comprehend all the ramifications of that complicated structure. I think it is impossible for any one to get an accurate picture of the Insull setup, and I remember the feeling of helplessness that came over me when...
Strange Interlude (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Eugene O'Neill's cinematized nine-act play of soul-sucking Nina Leeds drew a record crowd at its Hollywood opening. Translated and truncated to cinema form, it retold capably the story of the woman who needed three men to satisfy her comprehensive fixation on her father. The play's famed soliloquies indicating the thoughts of the characters are retained. As in the play they are of three kinds: 1) to show the secret mind of the speaker; 2) to comment on the dialog; 3) to tell the audience what has happened...
Last week the American Weekly retold as current news the fascinating story of Charles Lange of Port Townsend, Wash., a whimsical businessman who, having raised a school of salmon trout from the egg, keeps them in a pool beneath his office window, trains them to rise at his call, eat from his hand, even jump from the water through a hoop...
Described as a "fairy opera for the childlike," Jack and the Beanstalk is retold in the naively sophisticated manner which Author Erskine found profitable in his novel The Private Life of Helen of Troy. Jack, a soprano, loses gold, a hen and a magic harp to a Gargantuan bass giant. An old woman tricks him out of his faithful cow, burlesqued by two bassos who lyricize fore & aft. The harridan gives him a handful of beans which grow into the familiar beanstalk; he retrieves his treasures from the giant, who at last turns out to be an inflated rubber figure...
What U. S. Negroes are eager to hear about Russia is the truth of the so-called "lynching incident" (the Negro was not lynched) in a Soviet factory at Kharkov. The story, as retold last week by Communist Patterson: "Lewis and Brown, two white Americans from the South who were working side by side in a large tractor plant in Kharkov with Robinson, an American Negro, objected to his eating in the same dining room with them. When brought to trial, their fellow-workers found them guilty of race discrimination and sentenced them to two years in prison or expulsion...