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...lodge him before dawn in Yerovda Jail near Poona, where the Mahatma had twice before been imprisoned (1926, 1930). At 3 a. m. Police Commissioner Wilson, Inspector Hirst and two strapping Indian policemen climbed the tenement stairs, approached the tent with-in which Mr. Gandhi was sleeping, bearing a warrant arresting the Mahatma "for good and sufficient reasons." Under a century-old ordinance enacted in the reign of King George IV. 50 years before Britain became an Empire, Prisoner Gandhi was to be lodged in jail for an indefinite term "during the pleasure of the Government...
...spared the embarrassment of student political gestures. There are no bonfires, no smoking revolvers, no Latin mottoes to curb the tides of party government. The undergraduate has confined his activities chiefly within his academic walls. There are several reasons why this should be. The land is too comfortable to warrant dramatic causes. Citizens are not unduly oppressed by enthroned monarchs. Dukes carriages, bowling along the high-ways, do not crush flaxen haired blue eyed girls. The issues which are presented are too prosaic to merit the opposition or support of armed force. There is something inadequate about a secret society...
Here the authors put in what the producers perhaps thought was a touch original enough to warrant a $300,000 investment. The husband is unable to solve the situation. He goes back to his ship, leaving Dorothy Mackaill to select her own alternative. Safe in Hell is crude, trite, sporadically exciting...
...back & forth over the Wayne County Airport course (Detroit) in a special Gee-Bee (Grantville Bros.) racer, an unofficial stopwatch caught his speed at 307 m.p.h. Pilot Bayles is preparing for an official attempt to break the world's landplane record of 278.48 m.p.h..made in 1924 by Warrant Officer Bonnett of France...
...first issue of Hullabaloo, edited by Lester Grady who also edits Delacorte's Film Fun, did not seem to warrant the hullabaloo which it caused. As a caricature of the cinema and of cloying movie-fan magazines it scarcely transcended the unconscious absurdity of the fan magazines themselves. Plainly Publisher Delacorte did not want to be too rough with the industry which supports three of his publications?Film Fun, Screen Romances, Modern Screen?the last the second most successful (after Ballyhoo} of his string of fourteen. Some features of Hullabaloo's first issue...