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Insatiable admirers of Marlene Dietrich will swarm to this, her latest starring vehicle, will stay to be bored, and will understand at last why Paramount sought to wrest some manner of control over her acting and stories from the stubborn von Sternberg. For whatever fault, and there is much, which can be found in this cinema may be placed on the doorstep of the director alone. A capable group of actors struggles manfully through an unconvincing, poorly motivated, carelessly photographed production. But the effort is vain: Dietrich remains the beautiful woman who has yet to prove her histrionic talent; Herbert...
...headed for home. They mutinied, in a thoroughly Dutch manner. There was no shouting, no shooting. The Black Gang (engine room crew) just let the fires out. On the bridge Captain Van Dulken jangled telegraph handles, shouted down speaking tubes, stumped about like a bipedal Stuyvesant. The crew stayed stubborn and the Rotterdam drifted uncomfortably close to the coast of France. Finally Captain Van Dulken capitulated, but he still had a retort. Off the Hook of Holland a company of 30 Dutch Marines clambered aboard. Escorted by the mine layer Van Meerlant, the Rotterdam put into her home port where...
...without feeling it for weeks. So China drifted along last week. Not so Chiang Kaishek. Night after night he was up all night. Airplanes - several piloted by U. S. flyers - roared out to Shanghai, Hankow, Peiping, carrying messages too secret to be telegraphed, even in code. Stubborn Wang remained in hiding in the French concession at Shanghai, refusing to withdraw his resignation or to stick so much as the top of his head out of his hole. All negotiations with Chiang's representatives he left to his small, sleek wife who rushed busily in a limousine from his hiding...
...President Hoover fought . . . insisted . . . upheld . . . inaugurated . . . sponsored . . . stopped . . . conciliated . . . prevented . . . defeated . . . mobilized . . . directed . . . bolstered . . . extended . . . created. . . . But Depression has proved a stubborn foe. Like the multiple-headed Hydra, no sooner is one head chopped off when another grows out. [Hoover's] creating jobs did not solve the unemployment problem. His stopping immigration did not give every American a job. His banking reforms did not make every bank solvent. His farm measures did not pay off the debt on every farm. But [his] tactics saved the day. We have prevented disorders, riots, social upheavals. We have cared for the needy...
...delegates. He had captured all the convention machinery. He had confidently predicted victory for Governor Roosevelt on the first ballot. Yet since dawn that morning three ballots had come & gone at the Stadium and the Roosevelt nomination was unharvested. Jim Farley's plans had been stalled by the stubborn enmity of Alfred Emanuel Smith and a half-dozen Favorite Sons...