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Broadway (Universal). As a play on the stage, Broadway was memorable because the careful realism of setting and character made the high-strung plot seem truer than it was. In cinema the second rate cabaret where a dance team kept love and ambition alive in spite of the machinations of a master-gunman, has been replaced by a palatial and enormous nightclub with modernistic settings. It does not seem reasonable that the clients of such an establishment would pay to see such inexpert dancing as Glenn Tryon's and Merna Kennedy's. Features of the cops-&-robbers subplot...
...said about the advantages of a permanent fund for philanthropic purposes. But it is also possible that the seventeen and a half million dollars which the retired automobile manufacturer proposes to spend in the next quarter century will be more advantageous when used in a concentrated form than if strung out indefinitely and administered by future trustees...
...Chinese capital of Nanking, against the authority of whose President Chiang Kai-shek (see above) the Wuhan cities are in revolt. Military operations last week amounted to little more than the preliminary convergence of three Nanking Nationalist armies upon Hankow, where the Wuhan generals entrenched themselves and strung barbed wire...
Guardedly whispered was a bit of palace gossip that the youngest of the Royal Infantas, Princess Maria Christina-17 and high strung-almost fainted when her father, the King, invoked an old Spanish custom and bade her assist him to prepare for burial the corpse of Queen Maria Christina, after whom the Princess was named...
Bright over the Gulf of Mexico blazed the sun. A small white boat, one-masted, drifted into the tidy harbor of Tarpon Springs, Fla. On a beam reaching from the mast to the flagstaff astern, hung sponges strung on cords six feet in length. It was a Monday. Tuesday was auction...