Word: collier
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cast. She does fairly well, but the old college material is so stale it is hardly amusing even when parodied. A faintly witty caricature-the radio announcer at the football game. College Coquette (Columbia). Garnished with some guttural and vapid dialog in the mouths of Ruth Taylor and William Collier Jr., the formula of the hero who is expelled after saving his roommate from disgrace is varied by having a girl expelled after trying to save the honor of another co-ed who lost her virtue and walked down an elevator shaft. The survivor, after expulsion, marries the football coach...
Runabouts, hydroplanes, outboards all had their events at Red Bank. In a final grand free-for-all for a special trophy molded from a solid gold brick, presented by Barren Collier, two drivers of skittish little outboards, encouraged by the result of the gold cup race, entered their craft on the slim hope that the hydroplanes would all tip over, fall apart or blow...
Author of the winning text was Robert Collier, strenuous salesman, editor and staff of Mind, Inc., a monthly magazine of practical psychology. After winning the prize he admitted that he goes to church and while he cannot attend regularly "always manages to have some part of the family there...
Concluding Salesman Collier's text was the slogan: "Get the weight of a common aim, a common purpose, behind both your prayers and your work. go TO CHURCH...
...make The Mentor youthful, Crowell Publishing Co. has put a youthful man in the editorship, Hugh Anthony Leamy, just past 30, round-faced, amiable, onetime New York Sun reporter, for the last three years an associate editor of Collier's. About The Mentor, what its plans are, he will talk with hopeful enthusiasm. About new Editor Leamy he is reticent. "I'm still an untried man at this job," he explains. "But The Mentor? Well, you know, we thought it best to go through with a big change all at once to keep it up with the changing...