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...Painted Veil (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When Dr. Walter Fane (Herbert Marshall) goes to the door of his wife's bedroom in Hongkong, he finds it locked. On the hall table lies a polo helmet. From these two facts he knows that his Katrin (Greta Garbo) is sinning with a cool young legation attaché (George Brent). At dinner that night, Dr. Fane presents Katrin with a choice: she will leave with him for Mei-tan-fu, where cholera is epidemic, or she will marry the attach...
...white settlement west of the Alleghenies. "We, too, are hewing out a commonwealth...which we hope will give to its people...the fulfillment of security, of freedom, of opportunity..." the President told an audience of "pioneers of 1934." He waved a little silk flag and seven girls pulled the veil off a huge stone frieze of pioneer figures which cost the Federal Government...
...Christ's simple words have made and unmade nations, determined the lives and destinies of untold millions of people, and have been the controlling influence in history for nearly 2000 years. Why? Because behind his simple words throbbed the power of a unique, unconquerable, divine spirit. Behind the veil of utter simplicity shone the glory and majesty of a deathless ideal which made men say when once they saw it, "When I and weak, then am I strong." This ideal changed slaves into masters, cowards, and weaklings into heroes, bad men into saints and martyrs. It can and will transform...
...which served but to air a prejudice. On the basis of the author's belief (He offers no statistics or factual information--we are to take his word for it) that the present Administration offers no solution to the depression, he utterly condemns the New Deal. Under the veil of criticism of New Deal policy, politics and politicians he conceals a far more reaching criticism of our entire system of government. His editorial is actually an attempt to not only unqualifiedly disparage our present administration, but to annihilate, by nothing more than his own omnipotent personal opinion, our fundamental system...
...blowup had been touched off by smart, ruthless onetime Premier André Tardieu, now a Minister of State (without portfolio), who thought he saw his chance to stage a political comeback by posing as the one Cabinet Minister who would "speak the truth about Stavisky" and tear the veil of official discretion...