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Nazis busied themselves during the week at the expense of the Jews in the Bavarian town of Gunzenhausen. It began when storm troopers piled into a Jewish saloon to reprimand an "Aryan" at the bar. In the excitement a Jew spat on a storm trooper. He got away somehow, fled from house to house, finally hanged himself. Meanwhile the whole town had turned out for a finish fight. A little racial war rammed up and down the streets of Gunzenhausen for hours. Soon the jail was jammed with prisoners, all Jews, and the wounded of both sides crawled home...
Some of his old classmates were also looking forward last week to their reunion with "Putzy" with the greatest anticipation. There was Radio Newsman Hans von Kaltenborn, whose 17-year-old son was standing on a Berlin curb when a Nazi storm trooper slapped him for not saluting the Nazi flag carried by a passing detachment (TIME, Sept. 18). There were also several well-known U. S. Jewish classmates, including Lee Simonson, famed scenic artist, and Edwin Isaak Marks, vice president of Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. Other "Putzy" classmates: Boston Post Publisher Richard Grozier; Francis B. Biddle...
...hollow-eyed acting of Effie Shannon. She plays the Jewish wife of mild, aryan, pacifist Professor Opal (Guy Bates Post) who teaches in a Bavarian university. Their son Karl (Owen Davis Jr.) and his fiancée are admirers of Adolf Hitler. But when Karl's bigwig Storm Trooper friend Johannes von Rentzau learns that his mother is Jewish, a Nazi blight falls on the house. Professor Opal loses his job, bank account, friends; Karl his Storm Troop membership and fiancée. Frau Opal shoots herself dead. Von Rentzau marches in with a handful of troopers to inform...
...coming lawyer of Albemarle, Virginia. Largely through the influence of Jefferson, Lewis joined the army to participate in the Whisky Rebellion and in Mad Anthony's Indian campaign into the land of remorseless scalpings". Lewis escaped being scalped and proved to be so successful a trooper, although he performed no brilliant feats, that he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant...
...might be expected, palms go to Messrs. McLaglen, Denny, and Karloff for natural performances. Good shots for each: last man McLaglen, almost in hysteria, surveying the mounds of his comrades, digging his own grave, and settling into it with a machine gun and a rifle; old trooper Denny detailing the willing charms of various duskies; Karloff, crazed into fanaticism, striding in his rags, lighting the dunes with his sanctified grin, and deliberately poking into the sand, at every step, his eight-foot, roughwood cross...