Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (Twentieth Century-Fox). Warner Oland, still cinema's most dependably entertaining detective, liberally equipped with aphorisms in pidgin English and accompanied by his No. 1 son, Keye Luke, interrupts a vacation to find out who stole a million dollars in bonds...
Thank You, Mr. Moto (Twentieth Century-Fox). Another Oriental mystery man-shaven-skulled, pop-eyed Peter Lorre-looks for seven scrolls, the key to a vast treasure in the tomb of Genghis Khan. Assassinations, a kidnapping, the torture of a prince, hara-kiri and other interruptions confuse his efforts...
...McDonald wrestles valiantly with Keynes and seems at the end to have his shoulders pinned squarely on the mat though with so slippery a customer one can never be sure. Messrs. Geeharn and Marcus analyze effectively the recent Mexican land report and the Twentieth Century Fund Report on "Facing the Tax Problem...
After charting the dismalcours of the totalitarian states, the author turns to the struggling democracies. Professor Hoover realizes that changing conditions require a reconsideration of the government. He notes that we are in the twentieth century and suggests that the political theories which accorded with the facts of the previous hundred years may have to be modified to permit gov- ornmont to assume its new responsibilities--to break the severity of depressions in a world that has seen semi-monopoly and corporate organization throttle free competition and the entrpreneur, Unlike Walter Lippmann, Hoover does not advocate that we solve...
...Fathers (Twentieth Century-Fox). The 45 members of the Spear and Gun Club draw lots to decide which of them is to make a home for Cinemoppet Jane Withers. Jane, chunkily healthful, insufferably precocious, tries to smuggle a chimpanzee into Manhattan, demurs at singing and dancing lessons, straightens out another puppy love life. Redeeming feature: the dancing Hartmans, disguised as The Marvelous McCoys, adding ventriloquism to their repertory...