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...knows that the right man will have to win, if only to suppress the tragedienne in Miss Cowl that occasionally begins to crop out. But in general her acting is perfectly attuned to the mood of the play, and it is the way that she and her excellent support pronounce the Kaufman lines that is largely responsible for their success. The actors put the audience in a laughing disposition, which happily manages to tide one over the many barren stretches between the brilliant cracks...
Many a U. S. newsorgan was snipped or censored in Cuba while "Tyrant" President Gerardo Machado domineered, but last week his more liberal successors found something which even they resolved to suppress. Cubans lounging in sidewalk cafes had scarcely noticed that some of their U. S. visitors were reading an Esquire article entitled "Latins Are Lousy Lovers" when the Government swooped clown, confiscated all current newsstand copies of this masculine equivalent of Vogue and threw into jail luckless Marcial Perez, a partner in the firm which sells Esquire in Cuba...
...with him, cigar-chewing U. S. Ambassador Claude Bowers called Azafia the greatest living Spaniard, compared his ideals with those moderate motives which inspired George Washington and the American Colonists to shake off English Kingship. In Spain the Right knew what to think when Republican Azafia proved unable to suppress political violence and murder even in the streets of Madrid, made the philosophical assertion: "Violence is deeply enshrined in the Spanish people. The time has not yet come for Spaniards to stop shooting one another." President Azafia made a still greater sensation with his dictum: "The only person whose views...
...into a demonstration against the Yugoslavian Regency with organized shouting at every port of "Long Live Democratic Monarchy! Down with Dictatorship Royal or Otherwise! Welcome to King Edward As a Symbol of Our Destiny!" News of any such demonstrations Yugoslavia's iron censorship could be counted on to suppress...
Chinese censorship will rigidly suppress the facts and Chinese consuls abroad will loudly protest rumors, but what Canton, Shanghai and Nanking were saying last week boiled down to this: 1) General Chen took "silver bullets" from the Japanese and bought a good many lead bullets as a gesture to bring himself seriously to the notice of Nanking. 2) He then accepted "silver bullets" not to fight Nanking, which considered this a good investment as it thought he would never get away with the $30,000,000 in "small money" which would thus fall to them. 3) General Chen was shaken...