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From England out of Germany comes this screen comedy with music, now being presented at the RKO Keith Theatre. Originally produced in the Rhineland, it has been recast and filmed by Gains-borough, and now is released in America by RKO. Thursday night brought to Boston the American premiere of the picture , with Klieg lights and motion picture cameras vainly striving to turn Washington Street into Hollywood boulevard...
Then came the Speech from the Throne, which according to custom was written by Prime Minister MacDonald, read by the Lord Chancellor Lord Sankey. His Majesty was made to express "profound satisfaction" with the results of the London Naval Conference,? evacuation of the Rhineland, reparations settlement at The Hague. He concluded with earnest prayers and pious hopes?and Parliament was over...
...only one incident during President Paul von Hindenburg's tour of the liberated Rhineland which ended last week (see above) was calculated to ruffle U. S. equanimity. Asked Burgomaster Karl Russel of Coblenz, addressing the Hindenburg banquet: "How could we have endured the 'roughneck' methods of the Americans and the calculated oppression of the French if our peerless Rhine and Moselle wines had not helped us to bear our sad fate...
...Rhineland celebration ended right there. Old Paul immediately canceled the rest of his trip, donated money to a relief fund, motored back to Berlin, rested his weary feet. In the morning, every jubilant German flag that had fluttered from Holland to Switzerland was at half-staff. Crepe shrouded triumphal arches throughout the Rhineland...
...tempestuous Reichstag there were shouts of "Down with Hindenburg!" last week (see col. 2), but no such blatant outburst marred the triumphant passage of Old Paul through the newly liberated Rhineland (TIME, July 14 et seq.). In city after city massed thousands greeted the venerable president first with a reverent hush, then with a tornado of delirious "hochs...