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There was no question of lewd Phineas' guilt. He had admitted everything. But if Britons should allow natives to try them, there would soon be no Britons in Africa. Admiral Evans, now acting High Commissioner for Bechuanaland, and the Resident Commissioner Col. Charles Fernand Rey, went up with their Marines to try Chief Tshekedi...
Sentenced. Film Actor Duncan Renaldo, 28 (Trader Horn, Bridge of San Luis Rey) ; to two years in Federal Penitentiary and $2,000 fine for falsifying his passport, swearing to it; in Los Angeles. Renaldo claimed Camden (N. J.) birth, the U. S. showed "overwhelming" evidence of Rumanian birth, planned deportation proceedings...
Truslow Adams (March of Democracy) held his grip on the popular mind. But the year produced no Main Street, no Bridge of San Luis Rey...
When Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey burst into the best-seller lists, loud was the clucking from the critics' henroost. Drowned in the almost unanimous cackle of praise were a few deprecatory chirps, chiefly to the effect that it was a pity Author Wilder had not chosen a U. S. scene. When The Angel That Troubled the Waters and The Woman of Andros showed him still far from home, deprecatory chirps became louder. In The Long Christmas Dinner, a collection of six one-act plays no commercial producer would care to put on. Author...
...jumped into the barge. Propellers churned the water white. The officers on the pier set up a feeble cheer, "Viva el Rey...