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...disguises are removed from the kindly or officious or indifferent people who surround Marie, and she learns that Tenoki, the Japanese importer (Leslie Fenton) and Crawbett (Spencer Tracy), the U. S. student of tropical diseases, and Ratcliff (Robert Loraine), the genial English visitor, are secret service agents of their respective countries, bent on forestalling the enemy to world peace, Brogard (Siegfried Rumann). The picture winds up to a climax which, played in the power house of a dam, with the turbines screaming and plenty of dynamite on hand, is as thrilling as anything brought to the screen this year...
...dignity and exaltation of the Church. However exalted it might be inwardly, the Church would nevertheless be obliged to accept the outward trappings of an archbishop-call him "Your Grace," give him a primatial cross, add a ten-tasseled heraldic hat and pallium to the insignia of his see, surround him with ten deacons of honor, swing a censer nine times at him in church and officially call him "Most Reverend" instead of "Right Reverend"-the last a practice which Anglo-Catholics long ago adopted...
...political events of Europe are to mean anything at all to the people of America it is time that the press ceased to surround European Royal Houses with a halo of romance--which is usually exaggerated and in this case absurd--and directed its attention to giving its readers the instruction on political affairs which they are undoubtedly anxious to receive. Bernard C. Sendall Wolfgang F. Stolper...
...tale traces the history of a grave, unearthly, mild-mannered girl from birth beneath a Buttermilk Tree to motherhood. More interesting to most readers will be Nura's black and white pictures which achieve charm by combining a simple mysticism with an awareness of actuality. Animals, playthings, schoolbooks surround the solemn child as she grows up. At 15 she stares into space, a mirror on her lap. She emerges into starry light, the world at her feet, on her bridal night. "Full Bloom" shows her, arms outstretched in the shape of a cross, facing her babe who sleeps beneath...
...Another interesting phase of this conflict is the situation of Russia. Russia has made treaties of non-aggression with all the countries which surround her territory. She made proposals to Japan on much the same kind of a treaty, but Japan refused to have anything to do with Russia in a diplomatic way which means that Russia is not outside of the militaristic plans of Japan...