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...Untermyer scoffed: "This is just a play to the galleries." Said Mayor O'Brien to a newshawk as he hurried out after listening meekly in the background: "My dear boy, I've got a great big hole down here [patting his paunch]. I've got to hurry along and get some lunch...
...hinterland of letters, a sphinxlike, monolithic mass. Twenty years she has squatted there; eyes accustomed to the landscape are beginning to recognize something portentous in her massive outline. By the time-honored process of getting older Gertrude Stein, though she remains as mysterious as ever, has made herself a background place in the literary panorama...
...cannot understand what she is doing. Says Critic Wilson: "Most of us balk at her soporific rigmaroles, her echolaliac incantations, her half-witted-sounding catalogs of numbers; most of us read her less & less. Yet, remembering especially her early work, we are still aware of her presence in the background of contemporary literature-and we picture her as the great pyramidal Buddha of Jo Davidson's statue of her, eternally and placidly ruminating the gradual developments of the processes of being, regis- tering the vibrations of a psychological country like some august human seismograph whose charts we haven...
...many an ugly duckling, many a dubious chick, come squawking in to get a share of the pickings. The late Kodak tycoon, George Eastman, brooded to such good purpose that he hatched some fine, large eggs. In The Fault of Angels Author Horgan tells a story whose background is the Eastman School of Music at Rochester, N. Y. Citizens of that place will immediately recognize such thinly-disguised characters as Tycoon Eastman (Henry Ganson), Conductors Eugene Goossens (Vladimir Arenkoff) and Albert Coates (Sir Alfred Banner). But Publishers Harper & Bros, are banking on the book's attracting a wider attention...
...Gaumont-British). A perennial exhibit at air shows is the model of a floating airport to serve transoceanic planes. Invented 15 years ago, it continues to meet with practical objections. As background for a futuristic cinema it functions admirably. F. P. 1 is therefore exciting and at times interestingly realistic. Major Ellissen (Conrad Veidt) is an air hero riding the crest of his publicity. His best friend Captain Droste (Leslie Fenton) is sunk in the obscurity of an inventor's workroom. Ellissen uses his position to call attention to Droste's plan for a seadrome, persuades the Lennartz...