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Smathers was capable of going to any length in campaigning, but he indignantly denied that he had gone as far as a story printed in northern newspapers. The story wouldn't die, nonetheless, and it deserved not to. According to the yarn, Smathers had a little speech for cracker voters, who were presumed not to know what the words meant except that they must be something bad. The speech went like this: "Are you aware that Claude Pepper is known all over Washington as a shameless extrovert? Not only that, but this man is reliably reported to practice nepotism...
Captain China (Paramount) is a gee-whiz sea yarn with a barnacle-covered script. It casts John Payne* as a tough ex-skipper. He is out to get the scoundrel (Lon Chancy Jr.) who locked him in his cabin, innocently sleeping off a drunk, while the treacherous first mate (Jeffrey Lynn) ran his ship onto a reef and left it sinking. As a passenger aboard another ship carrying the villains, Payne gets his revenge during a China Sea voyage marked by gory fisticuffs, a typhoon and romantic dalliance with a supposedly exotic tramp (Gail Russell...
...West, by A. B. Guthrie Jr. A well-knit yarn about an Oregon-bound covered-wagon train in which no one resembles Jane Russell and no one gets scalped (TIME...
...West, by A. B. Guthrie, Jr. A well-knit yarn about an Oregon-bound covered-wagon train in which no one resembles Jane Russell and no one gets scalped (TIME...
...political allegory and a science fiction (which predicts that in 2000 A.D. the dirigible will replace the airplane), are empty shows of the author's variety. He seems to do everything easily, and nothing really well. But in the fifth story, A Deal in Cotton (a wild yarn, all fever and cannibals, about an attempt to raise cotton in Africa), the author for the first time shows signs that he can create vivid characteristics, if not characters. And he follows a trail of action that would stump a bloodhound, yet does not waste a step...