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...Golfers George Von Elm and Leo Diegel: a match against Mortie Dutra and Robert Tyre Jones Jr.; at Agua Caliente, Mexico. Golfer Jones is now performing in Warner Bros, golf talkies. Current rumor about what Jones will do next summer: tour the U. S. in exhibition matches, sponsored by Warner Bros., starting at the Winchester Country Club near Boston with Francis Ouimet as partner...
...feeling that the novelty of sound in pictures could best be capitalized in songs and dances, filmed a succession of musical comedies. When these were overworked, reaction inspired the theory that no musical comedies could be successful in the cinema. Applying this mistaken generality to Fifty Million Frenchmen, Warner Bros, neglected to include in it Cole Porter's score which made it a Broadway...
...decide which was the most important Back-room Masterpiece, but almost certainly the most expensive was the Wildenstein Galleries' Fragonard, Le Pont de Bois, for which they would like to receive about $200,000. Almost alone of New York's important galleries, the firm of Duveen Bros, refused to take part in the show. Reason: Sir Joseph was out of town; his three brothers could do nothing without...
Treatment for Burns. Under big, tousle-headed Sanders A. Wertheim, Burns Bros, proudly proclaimed Burns Coal Burns, and Burns Bros, grew fast. Last month much smoke over Burns Bros, indicated trouble in the boiler-room of management from which should come the steam that makes for profits. One cloud of smoke was the resignation of President Wertheim, the election of Noah H. Swayne as his successor. Another cloud was a sudden, alarming drop of all Burns securities. Another was the election of several Lehigh Valley Coal Corp. men to the Burns board...
Opera has often come to film-seers in little pieces. One of the first things Warner Bros, did with the sound device was to make a series of short features in which famous stars sang arias. The experiment was not continued. Had Gallo's Pagliacci been made with singers from the Metropolitan their names might have been enough to put it over in fair-sized cities, but the cast means little as a draw nor is it overskillful. The singers act only when they feel their voices going back on them. This deficiency is startlingly revealed by closeups; there...