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...stock, received them at his Fair, where they were tootled around in a trackless motor train. Their own Empire's exhibits, including a copy of the Magna Charta, were their chief stops, being formal reasons for their U. S. visit. Artist Frank E. Beresford was on hand with sketch pad to record the event. Columbia University got a crack at them on their way to Hyde Park: Dr. Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous") Butler received them at the foot of the library steps, showed them the King's College charter issued by George II in 1754. Ahead...
...continuously revised to keep up-to-date, Correspondent John Gunther wrote a swift, popular handbook of present-day Europe. His system was to take a country, give the lives, habits and personalities of its leaders, put in a few choice anecdotes, make a few sound generalizations about the people, sketch in historical background, retell the nation's most recent and dramatic episodes and then move on to the next country, where the same process was repeated...
...where the picture has been shown before. . . ." > "He finds he can't get lunch in the building; and, if he leaves, he has to pay another admission. . . ." > "It would cost very little to give each patron a leaflet with a small map of the building and a brief sketch of the most important things to be seen and where to find them...
...Castles starts when Vernon (Fred Astaire) is working as stooge in a revue sketch with Lew Fields (Lew Fields). When he meets Irene Foote (Ginger Rogers), daughter of a New Rochelle doctor, he is first horrified by her amateurish version of Bessie McCoy's Yama Yama dance, then by her brash assumption, after watching him cut loose with a few tap steps on the station platform, that the future holds more for him than a putty nose...
...record of six months' travel in Czecho-Slovakia before Munich, North of the Danube contains eight sensitive, compact sketches by Erskine Caldwell, 64 photographs which include some of the best Margaret Bourke-White has done. Slighter than their classic word & picture study of the South, You Have Seen Their Faces, it unfortunately appears when Czecho-Slovakia is a last year's bird's nest. But this is a travel book with an interest which survives politics; even as its subject, the Czecho-Slovakian peasantry, will survive Hitler. Best sketch: A scene in the Carpathian Mountains where, protected...