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During the crossing of the line ceremonies Cadet Staggs was hailed before the bar of justice of His Royal Majesty Neptunus Rex and accused of winning the $100,000 Old Gold Prize, to which he pleaded guilty. He was then given the blindfold test of popular brands to see whether he knew an Old Gold when he smoked one. He failed most miserably, picking a Camel...
...longer does the hulking Italian liner Rex have to stop at Quarantine for medical inspection since the granting eight months ago of "radio pratique" to certain liners entering New York harbor (TIME. Sept. 6). It stopped there last week, however, to let two moon-faced gentlemen climb down a gangplank to a Coast Guard cutter. The cutter snaked up the river to a Fire Department pier. Here the chubby passengers, Cinema Producer Hal Roach and Dictator's Son Vittorio Mussolini, were transferred to an earnest knot of alien squad members, policemen. State Department and Italian Embassy officials, and rushed...
Accompanied by Hollywood Producer Hal Roach, Vittorio Mussolini, 21. eldest son of Il Duce, sailed on the Rex for the U. S., where he will learn U. S. movie production methods prior to starting an Italian company backed 50% by Producer Roach...
...Prisoner of Zenda (Selznick International). From the day of its publication, 43 years ago, Anthony Hope's famed Ruritanian romance was a dramatic natural. Since 1895 The Prisoner of Zenda has swashbuckled over the stages of the English-speaking world. In 1922 Rex Ingram produced a silent cinema version. Last week Producer David Selznick gave this colorful hardy perennial the finest treatment it has ever had. Slicked up by Screenwriters Wells Root and John L. Balderston, well-cast, well-acted and beautifully staged, The Prisoner of Zenda will hardly hearten those who want Hollywood to skate out where...
...plane. Small fragments of the Sikorsky scattered over a wide area led P.A.G. officials to believe that it struck the sea at high speed. No bodies were recovered. The passenger list made public last week disclosed that among the victims were two well-known Bureau of Air Commerce executives, Rex Martin and Garnett Quims Caldwell...