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...mediocrity which is believed and accepted in the nation as the best. Their prizes throw an effective smoke screen over the strong efforts in American writing, permitting persevering incompetents and academic rhymesters to practice their lack of art in the spotlight of public approval. It is true that they stir up public interest, but they focus its attention on second rate efforts and obscure the good. Better far that the prize money and attendant publicity be withheld on years in which there is nothing outstanding than that they be awarded to shallow and pretentious material. Unless men are selected...
...Princess Elizabeth. The plot concerns a group of American business men, who, tired of being mere economic royalists, decide to go in for the more traditional form of monarchy, and set up the Kingdom of Cafeteria in the heart of New York, seceding from the Union without causing much stir. But they need support, of course, and hence the dictators and democracies come blustering on to the scene. The treatment of the Rome-Berlin axis, and the friendly manner in which the two strong men goose-step arm in arm and kid each other about colonies, is among the best...
...sophisticated music-lover will find nothing banal about the joint concert of the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society in Sanders Theater tomorrow evening. Mile, Nadia Boulanger has searched deep in the annals of composition to bring out a program of nine rare and beautiful pieces that should stir the soul of the hardest critic...
...Tamaulipas State, where incipient outbreaks occurred. Thousands of peons found that bank credit for Mexico's late cotton-planting season was nonexistent. Suddenly, the Government suspended irrigation public-work projects for lack of cash. Discontent was widespread and the Gold Shirts decided on their abortive attempt to stir the unrest into mass revolt. At week's end the President ordered Government jobs provided for them on the Matamoros-Ciudad Victoria highway construction...
...newsreel shots of the Shanghai bombing (TIME, Sept. 13); 2) its hopeful experiment with doll-like, undistinguished June Lang (real name: Jane Vlasek) as a beautiful-but-dumb comedian; 3) its commanding hero, 6 ft.-3 in. George Sanders. Russian-born of British parents, Sanders made a great stir in his first Hollywood role, as the foppish Lord Stacy in Lloyd's of London. Immediately earmarked for stardom by Producer Darryl Zanuck, he has been undergoing a melodramatic course of sprouts (Slave Ship, Lancer Spy). International Settlement makes it clear that, even in the presence of seasoned troupers like...