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Transamerica's boss, old Amadeo Peter Giannini, having retorted that it was simply a matter of accounting theory, began fighting SEC with all the wrath his hot Italian blood could generate. In Washington last week, after a month of legal fencing, Lawyer Rogge haled Mr. Giannini's personal secretary to court. She refused to talk. So did three other Giannini intimates. "This is the most outrageous case of contumacy I have ever seen," bellowed Lawyer Rogge, obtaining a recess until March...
...Laughtons in themselves are enough to bring almost anyone to see their pictures. Produced by them and by the Mayflower Picture Co. which they own. "The Beachcomber" is based upon Somerset Maughan's "Vessel of Wrath". The supervision of their own production guarantees a picture which can hardly be criticized from an artistic point of view...
...closest advisers have long been a group of rich Hindu moneylenders and merchants, that the Saint is not even faintly inclined to socialist principles. They also take no stock in Mahatma Gandhi's belief that machines are wicked, that earthquakes are demonstrations of God's wrath and that the primitive Indian village life is the ideal way of living. And more significantly, they have lately come to believe that the Mahatma was far too prone to compromise with the British...
From ever provoking a Coach's wrath...
Admirers of Somerset Maugham will be pleased to observe that the plot of this picture, adapted from his short story The Vessel of Wrath, greatly resembles that of Rain, with genders reversed. Thus, though Ginger Ted eventually undergoes a slight regeneration, the missionary's character is completely revolutionized, while the poor contróleur gets a reward usually reserved in the cinema for knaves...