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Reds Waiting. Roaming Mr. Chen has been at Moscow as well as Tokyo. If Baron Shidehara welcomed last week the advent of a Chinese realist with whom he could negotiate, the Japanese Foreign Minister did not welcome a possibility that Mr. Chen may have obtained promises of Soviet backing...
This might have caused countless horses to turn in their glue pots, for it is the ultimate disgrace since the advent of the horseless buggy. Ever since the horse lost the rest of its toos, it has trod on them to oblivion. Soon the use of the horse will become a fond memory, along with the mustacho cup; and legend will have Lady Godiva ride a tricycle through the storm of ticker tape that greeted her for her non-stop flightiness...
...American universities, this innovation will aid in stimulating debating wherever it is used. There could be no greater thrill for a debater than that of talking and being answered across an ocean. It is undeniable that a public speaker is inspired by the reaction of his audience. With the advent of radio as a forensic medium this will be denied him. But there will remain the satisfaction of speaking to an almost unlimited public both in this country and in England...
...glorified by sophisticated treatment. An example is the story of the rise & fall of starched collars as reflected in the glorious reign and ignominious fate of the Arrow Collar Man -"a national idol who never lived." A chart showing the tumble of starched collar sales from 1919 (the advent of the soft shirt) is surrounded by colored reproductions of Artist Joseph Christian Leyen-decker's unbelievably handsome creation at critical stages of his career from the "merry Oldsmobiling" days of 1907 to the present. Captions tell the story...
Theoretically, many persons who were cinemaddicts before the advent of talking pictures have since lost interest in moving pictures. To recapture their attention, and increase cinema attendance all over the U. S., the Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America (Tsar Hays's organization) last week considered an unprecedented project: a $500,000 advertising campaign, recommending no particular pictures, all cinemas in general...