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...more such trial as can be found only in Moscow opened last week, as usual in the palace which belonged in Tsarist days to the Nobles Club, but this time in a less spacious chamber than the great "Hall of Columns"hitherto used (TIME, Aug. 31). In all the experience of Moscowite Walter Duranty he had never before seen the Soviet Supreme Court do business with other than red-cloth-covered tables but last week for the first time they were green-cloth-covered. As usual, the apple-cheeked Red Army soldiers with rifles and fixed bayonets mounting guard over...
...high plateau on which stands Mexico City, Lest anyone do the Great Exile a mischief El Hidalgo stopped some miles outside the capital and Mr. & Mrs. Trotsky, with six Mexican detectives permanently assigned to them, alighted to finish their journey by motor car.* This whisked them to the spacious suburban residence of fat and smoldering Mexican Muralist Diego Rivera, an ardent Trotskyist, friend of President Cardenas, and casher-in on the John D. Rockefellers (Father & Son) who in art "know what they like...
...members of the American National Livestock Association were parching in El Paso last week another convention in Chicago was setting records for liquor consumption, big buying and fun. This was fitting, for the National Association of Coin Operated Machine Manufacturers is most precisely in the fun business. In the spacious, hearty Hotel Sherman, no manufacturers exhibited about 1,000 coin machines on an acre of ball room, for which they paid $1.50 a sq. ft., and in private show rooms most of which were equipped with bars. To their convivial customers they sold $5,000,000 worth of nickel games...
Such a picture is "The Ski Chase," featuring the excellent ski ability of Hannes Schneider. Its popularity with Boston and especially Harvard is shown in the fact that today it enters its fifth week of showing. Laid in the spacious, snow-deepened mountains of the Austrian Tyrol, this German production gives an unusual and varied conception of the winter sport. even though one doesn't know much about skiing, the feats and easy grace of the fifty or more skiers must be admired. Men and snow make a beautiful combination, anyway, and when skis are added, the result...
...taking originality. Subordinating plot and characterization it unrolls before an untiring audience, which never coases to admire the ingenious technique, artistic angles, and gradations in color of black and white film. Such a picture is "The Ski Chase," featuring the excellent ski-ability of Hannes Schnoider. Laid in the spacious snow-doopened mountains of the Austrian Tyrol, this German production given an unusual and varied conception of the winter sport. We don't know a terrible lot about skiing, but the feats and perfection of the fifty or more skiers looked pretty good. Man and snow make a beautiful combination...