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...studio publicity man named Space Hanlon (Lee Tracy), Lola's life is really no more than a negative for her pictures, a high-speed press for headlines. Hanlon has the marquis arrested for not renewing his passport; Lola gets the director to put up the bail. Before the screamer headlines on the first story have time to cool, Hanlon arranges for count and director to come to blows at Lola's house. The fight not only produces more headlines; it thwarts Lola's scheme, which Hanlon thinks might dull her lurid reputation, to adopt a baby, because...
...Yellow Peril to squat permanently between the U. S.-possessed Philippine and Hawaiian Islands! And every one knows that a War Party has been dominant in Japan for two years! Publisher Hearst last week slathered his papers with a half-page editorial and half-page map under the screamer line: "Only Preparedness Will Prevent War." It sounded alarming even for alarmist Publisher Hearst. Excerpts...
...Cinemactress Bennett is unable to make a loud scream. When called upon to do so, she employs a professional screamer, Miss Alice Doll, who screams also for Ruth Chatterton, Kay Francis...
...labor or the trade unions; no member of either the Socialist Party or the Fascist Party, respectively largest and next-largest in the Reichstag. To cap the climax President von Hindenburg appointed as Germany's new Chancellor notorious Lieut.-Colonel Franz von Papen. English editors promptly splashed out the screamer EX-SPY BECOMES GERMAN CHANCELLOR...
...Board"; 3) modernization and re-equipment of British industries under a "National Planning Board"; 4) postponement ("not repudiation") of Britain's War debt payments until the Mosley "reconstruction program" shall have been completed. Obviously the Conservative Sunday Express was justified in splashing out the manifesto under a derisive screamer: If I Were Prime Minister-By Sir Oswald Mosley. But observers noted that numerous features of the "Mosley program" correspond with Liberal Leader David Lloyd George's ideas of how to deal with Britain's economic crisis. Is Sir Oswald a stalking horse for the Welshman? The Mosleys...