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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hounds (Afghans, basset hounds, beagles, dachshunds, foxhounds, etc.). Ch. White Rose of Boveway. a sleek greyhound belonging to Harry Twyford Peters, chairman of the show, last year reached the finals. But so keen was the competition among hounds last week, that Judge Joseph Z. Batten passed her over, picked a stubby beagle as best, a stubby dachshund as next best. He waved the dogs to winners stalls; the crowd clapped; friends congratulated the beagle's owner. Then Judge Batten thought better, put first the dachshund, Ch. Fox von Teckelhof, owned by Hugh O'Neill of Joplin...
...might not have liked Hollywood's version of his Treasure Island (1934). But he would have had a fit at what somebody had done to his unsexy story in the new Soviet film: transformed Cabin-boy Jim Hawkins into a pretty blonde. The guilty somebody was Boris Z. Shumiatsky, Will Hays of the Soviet cinema industry. Last week Boris Shumiatsky was out of a job. Other charges against him: 1) that in attempting to freight "a bourgeois adventure story" with significance he had introduced the Irish revolutionary movement without considering Karl Marx's letter...
...believing that war is inevitable anyway are the surest means of getting us involved in European and Asiatic difficulties. The only way to stay at peace in time of crisis is for every American to believe it is possible for his country to stay at peace. . . . Nalum Z. Medulla...
Assorted Baby Deans of University Hall Z, Cambridge...
...Cropper, Mervin Jules, were excellent as both. None equaled a set of etchings by Picasso called Dreams and Lies of Franco, caricaturing El Caudillo as an inhuman, hairy nightmare. Favorite painting of a group of Amalgamated Clothing Workers who showed up at the opening was Two Generations, by Alexander Z. Kruse: the Kaiser as a kangaroo carrying a baby kangaroo earmarked with swastikas...