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Show Author and Motion Picture Producer to Be Next Knife and Fork Club Speaker George Rony, famous lecturer, author and motion picture producer, pro-ducer, will be the next guest speaker at the Escalante Knife and Fork club to be held on January 10, it is announced by D. C. Dix, secretary of the local club. The meeting will be held at 7:30 p. m. In the ballroom of the El Escalante hotel. Mr. Rony. born in Russia and ! an authority on Europe, Is now an American citizen and is ex-1 ex-1 tremely proud of the fact. Well ; he might be for, according to the ' rumors, Pal Joey would throw ( fifltfM III GEORGE BONY him in a concentration camp if he ever came back to Russia. He has been in the United States since his perilous flight from Nazi-occupied France by way of Spain and Portugal, during dur-ing which the lives of his family fam-ily and himself were miraculously miraculous-ly spared after he had become a marked man in Europe for his production of "The Greatest Gangster", which satirized Hitler and was one of a series of propaganda pro-paganda films which he made for the French government during dur-ing the war. A fugitive from three dictatorships, dictator-ships, George Rony, though still a young man, has made his name a familiar one in Europe and America. As a boy he experienced the Russian revolution in his native city, Leningrad. Shortly after the Revolution he crossed Siberia on the way to China, but returned to Moscow after a dramatic trip of 155 days across the Steppes. During his years In Europe he accumulated the largest library of historical films on the continent. con-tinent. Most of them were subsequently sub-sequently destroyed by the Germans Ger-mans when they occupied Paris. He knew and filmed Hitler. Stalin, Sta-lin, Mussolini, Coebbels, Hess, Lenin, Hlndenburg, Blum, Dalad-ler, Dalad-ler, and many others. |