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...component parts. He gives his opinion of the proper aims of the cinema and of the roads which will lead to dead ends. The examples used for illustration in his analysis are mainly from the regular run of Hollywood productions; he is less in interested in purely theoretical experi- ments than he is in the improvement of commercial cinema. For the student of the cinema the book is invaluable by virtue of a large bibliography...
...clock at the Belmont Springs Country Club in the first match of the season. Coach Clark Hodder's hopes for a powerful team have been considerably disappointed by the ineligibility and sickness of some of the best golfers on the squad, but he hopes several less experi- enced golfers will soon improve enough to fill the open positions capably...
...utmost promptness looking toward the restoration of a permanent gold standard in the U. S. . . . It is of the greatest im portance to business recovery that the Administration clearly and unequivocally announce that it will not adopt an automatic commodity dollar or a managed commodity dollar or similar currency experi- ments. . . ."* An amendment to substitute an endorsement of the President's policy was voted down with a roar of Nays. When Earl Harding, representing the inflationist Committee for the Nation, asserted that the resolution would antagonize "perhaps 75% of the population of the nation" the chambermen laughed. Mr. Loree...
...autogiro. But the reverse is not true. If a 'giro-trained pilot should go up in an airplane, throttle down the engine and pull back on the control-stick, as he may safely do in a 'giro, he would have his first-possibly his last-experi-ence with a tailspin. An attempt to land vertically as in a 'giro would be similarly disastrous. Yet heretofore a student who passed his first Department of Commerce tests in a 'giro was given an ordinary private pilot's license which entitled him to fly any licensed aircraft...
...just the same as selling anything else." Mr. Brown's selection occasioned some comment in amusement circles, in as much as Mr. Brown has had no experi ence in amusement enterprises. But if he now knows nothing about amusements, he also knew nothing about leather when he became the U. S. Leather Co. head in 1923. The modern executive is not in frequently superior to and aloof from a detailed knowledge of his industry's routine...