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...thousands of photographs in Madrid's police headquarters showing the bodies of these victims-whose only crime was being suspected of having sympathies for the enemy-and I estimate that be- tween 10,000 and 15,000 have been shot down in the capital alone," continued U. P.'s Ziffren. "A Madrid militia commander, whom I had known for several years, offered to take me to a 'bumping off party' and show me how it was done...
...living at the shabby Foot-Lights Club, says that she would not go to Hollywood and have her art put up in a can like soup even for an ermine swimming pool, she is not bringing any fresh arguments to bear on the long-mooted question of superiority be tween stage and screen. And when her radical, playwriting friend (Richard Kendrick), having decided after a Broad way success to go West and write for and not about the masses, tells Terry that the theatre is an obsolete art form which is not equipped to keep its devotees' bodies...
...impersonation of a girl who at the last moment replaces a famed screen star, who for publicity purposes has condescended to return to show business for one dramatic appearance, suggests a parallel be tween art and life that is likely to confuse most spectators...
...Gaumont deal (TIME, Aug. 3). Nick Schenck's Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Loew's production subsidiary, was going to buy one-half of Twentieth Century-Fox's minority interest in the Gaumorit-British holding company. This was to be followed by a complicated reshuffle of shares be tween the Brothers Schenck, Isidore Ostrer and his numerous brothers, by which the Ostrers would lose their preponderant interest and large quantities of Gaumont stock would be sold to the British public...
...typically detached, impersonal book of a professional diplomat, weighed down with heavily documented defenses of his policy, Memoirs of Count Bernstorff is of most interest to U. S. readers in its account of the months before relations be tween the U. S. and Germany were broken. Up to that time Bernstorff's career was unexciting. Born of an old diplomatic family in 1862, Bernstorff had been an in different student, apparently without goading ambitions, when a feud between his family and the Bismarcks seemingly put an end to any diplomatic aspirations he might have held. Bernstorff's older...