April 15, 1938

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SHOTS and ANGLES

WHEN gangster films are funny— i.e., when Damon Runyon writes them—they’re about the raciest form of entertainment on the screen. Author Runyon is at his best in “A Slight Case of Murder.” The problem of the hero (Edward G. Robinson) is what to do with four corpses which he finds hanging on hooks in a closet of his rented Saratoga villa. By ANN ROSS6 min

Parade

MR. HAROLD CHADWICK, of Saint John, N.B., needs no one to convince him that the world is a small place, after all. When a local theatre advertised a presentation of the film “Africa Speaks.” Mr. Chadwick, who knows his Africa, because he served with the Fifth Royal Warwicks during the Boer War, took his small son to see the picture.

Protests Against Salacious Magazines

STRONG protests against the flooding of Canadian news stands with United States magazines which feature crime and sex are being made throughout the Dominion. Recently, Mr. Owen Dawson, prominent in boys’ work, told the Montreal Rotary Club that degrading literature is “one of the major causes of juvenile delinquency,” and expressed amazement that “the pernicious stream is not swept out of the country.”

WOMEN AND THE HOME

Spring Home Improvements

HOW DID your house come through the winter? Did you have trouble with a smoky fireplace? Did any of your walls show dampness? Inside or out? Was your house hard to heat? Did snow, ice, wind, and rain do any damage? Spring is the time to see just what winter did to your dwelling, and during the summer it will pay you to have necessary repairs carried out so that you won’t be caught napping when another winter swoops down on you. By EVAN PARRY5 min