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...Schaffendes Volk (Creative People) Exposition, timed to steal the thunder of the Paris Exposition and show up French "incompetence," will be opened this week (May 8) by Air Minister Colonel-General Hermann Wilhelm Goring. The Fair will publicize the aims and accomplishments of Germany's Four-Year Plan, especially such synthetic products as artificial rubber, textiles, gasoline. Also emphasized will be Germany's progress in city-planning, home-construction and horticulture. In the garden show alone will be more than a million varieties of plants and flowers...
...Thunder in the City (Columbia) is the meaningless title of a story about a U. S. ballyhoo artist who turns England topsyturvy promoting a new metal named magnalite. Gash-mouthed Edward G. Robinson plays the role in his customary Napoleonic manner. As genial Dan Armstrong, he lands penniless in London, bluffs his way into an option on the magnalite mines, installs a duke as board chairman, sends fleets of blimps over London carrying magnalite signs, soon sells all his stock to enthusiastic herds of subway riders. At this point another capitalist gets his hands on the only process that makes...
This smoothly unfolded comedy is notable in only one respect: It is the U. S. debut of a 20-year-old, five-foot-three, 105-lb. Viennese girl with grey eyes and brown hair, using the name Luli Deste. Thunder in the City gives her opportunity to demonstrate that these qualities photograph extremely well. She is currently established in Hollywood with three Afghan hounds. Divorced wife of the late Baron Godfried Hohenberg, Luli Deste once understudied Elizabeth Bergner in The Last of Mrs. Cheyney, ran a rug-weaving concern in London before she started in European cinema a year...
...Minister-President's ultimatum the Nazi press added its thunder: "The mere publication of this decree should galvanize the last slackers in the agrarian production battle...
...last 15 years has been UFA (Universum Film Akteingesellschaft), which made such famed silent pictures as The Last Laugh, Variety, The Golem (see p. 48). Most famed Russian director has been Sergei Eisenstein (Ten Days That Shook the World, Potemkin), who four years ago spent two years producing Thunder Over Mexico. Last week, UFA and Director Eisenstein, neither of whom has been much in the U. S. news lately, reappeared in it, both to their disadvantage...