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Over a year ago, in Chicago, Peter Grimes had the same leg rebroken, this time by a pie wagon. By chance Dr. Jerger, now practicing in Chicago, was called to amputate the leg. He was delighted to recognize his old handiwork. Again Peter Grimes disappeared. But this time he was comparatively rich from his accident award. Dr. Jerger, vexed by certain meannesses in Peter Grimes's behavior, sued, not for the old $500 which of course was outlawed, but for his new fee (TIME, March...
...father, the late Lord Birkenhead, started life as plain Frederick Edwin Smith) has several claims to fame: she is young, pretty, popular; and her father's career is a dowry richer than most English girls get nowadays. Last year she staked another claim by writing a novel, Red Wagon, which became a U.S. bestseller. Now she has written another, not great but good...
...carnival for propagandists with a message. Chief of these exhibits last week was a huge cartoon, painted on muslin by twelve members of the John Reed Club, an organization of communistically inclined writers & artists. Entitled Washington Market it showed a pudgy Herbert Hoover knee-deep in a junk wagon labelled U. S. A. Prominent was a large dead fish, labelled FISH (meaning Red-hunting Congressman Hamilton Fish of New York). Temporarily tacked to Mr. Hoover's left hand was a loose piece of paper marked BONUS VETO. Explained a grey-bearded John Reed clubfellow...
...City is a very, very sick man according to Mayor Walker, so sick indeed that he has had to go to California. There under the shade of the dated palm he will take his ease and contemplate the stars, wondering whether it wouldn't be advisable to hitch his wagon to another and less tarnished...
...friendly doctor. There are sentimental stretches in Father's Son, but it is effective most of the time, paced exactly right by Director William Beaudine. Young Leon Janney gives a fine performance as the boy. Typical shot: Janney riding past his father's office in the junk-wagon of his crony, a Negro named Vestibule...