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Dates: during 1930-1939
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WASHINGTON -- Chairman Martin Dies, D., Tex., of the House Committee investigating un-American activities, today refused Fritz Kuhn, head of the German-American Bund, permission to postpone his second appearance before the Committee, scheduled for tomorrow...
Last week the Dies Committee on Un-American Activities which has constantly astounded itself, astounded even its critics by turning up some useful information about the U. S. Communist Party. Congressman Martin Dies and his investigators achieved this feat by aping G-Man Edgar Hoover and Treasury tax sleuths, going to bank records for telltale facts...
...develop special talent for the camera but made movies that attracted and used the seasoned acting personnel of the French theatre. For The End of a Day, a photographic plate recording with sharp sensitivity the emotional atmosphere of a home for retired actors, Director Julien Duvivier (Poil de Carotte, Un Cornet de Bal) recruited a cast that includes many a distinguished veteran of the Paris stage, headed by polished, twinkling Louis Jouvet, a director of the Comédie-Française and one of France's most illustrious actor-managers. Beautifully played to the last...
...Gallery (24 carefully selected pieces) combined old art and new with almost no jolts. A 15th-Century Christ in the Temple failed to clash with Marc Chagall's pinkish fantasy, Flowers in a Dream, Max Beckmann's strong modern Landscape with Factory or Clemente Orozco's un-Orozcolike The "El" Station...
Into a San Francisco bar strolled septuagenarian, vegetarian St. Louis Estes, who has made a fortune from talks on raw food, fathered seven sons (all named St. Louis) and seven daughters (four un-named). There he made friends with an unknown couple, took them and two bottles of liquor to his Nob Hill penthouse. While he snoozed, his two guests frisked him of $3,800 and departed. His secretary explained that he had "gone into a tavern, as was his custom from time to time, in order to study human nature, mix with the lower elements, and see what...