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After three years of exile de Pinedo, 43, believed himself in line for promotion last autumn "to the highest possible military air rank." Instead he was retired, put on reserve. In January he went to the U. S. with an idea for an aerial "tramp" freight service around the world in the southern hemisphere. Last week he popped up in Manhattan where he had been going under the name of "Mr. Smith." He had a new plane, a Wasp-powered Bellanca, and extraordinary plans. Single-handed he would fly from Floyd Bennett Field, N. Y. to "some point in Asia...
Readers who gobbled Jan Welzl's Thirty Years in the Golden North (TIME, May 23), with or without salt, should smack their lips over this anecdotal sequel. In the first book Welzl told how, from being a locksmith, sailor, tramp he became a trader, proprietor of a boat, chief judge of New Siberia. In The Quest for Polar Treasures he describes with the same unliterary candor tall tales of further gold and fur hunts...
Thus last week in Nanking, China's capital, spoke Foreign Minister Lo Wenkan with appropriate frenzy, pardonable hyperbole. Nearly all the 400 million Chinese felt as strongly as Mr. Lo that China must resist Japan's new offensive to seize Jehol.* Meantime tramp, tramp, relentlessly down from Manchuria pressed Japanese soldiers numbering 60,000 at most. They were reinforced by 40,000 Manchurian (Chinese) mercenaries, but their weapons were those of the Machine Age. Tensely China, the world's most populous nation, quivered between ardor and despair...
...Gilda comfortably sinning in an attractive London flat. Both, however, pine for their absent crony Otto. Gilda, it appears, is not so happy as she might be with Leo's theatrical success. While he is away at a houseparty, up bobs Otto, fresh from a voyage on a tramp steamer. "The circle has turned," says he, "and it's my turn now." But next morning Gilda leaves notes for both her lovers, goes off to Manhattan to marry an art broker and find, she hopes, peace. When Leo and Otto meet and read their letters they collapse into...
Will Rogers, appearing as a tramp in the other feature, succeeds again in doing what only he can do: making a soppingly sentimental plot not only bearable, but enjoyable. This story, taken from Ben Ames Williams' "Jubilo," gives him a chance to display all his talents. There's pathos and there's slapstick comedy, there's sentimentality and there's wisecracking. And Marion Nixon as the sweet and Innocent daughter doesn't hurt...