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...Spalding & Bros., official ball manufacturers† maintained that the "lively" ball is a myth, that no change had been made since 1909, when the cork centre was introduced. When the New York Telegram, crusading against the "lively" ball, last week produced cross-sections of a 1919 ball and of a 1929 ball to show that the 1929 ball contains a layer of rubber not found in its 1919 ancestor, Julian W. Curtiss, Spalding president, wrote to the Telegram: "Let me assure you that the life of the ball has not been changed since 1920." He left the inference, satisfying...
Died. Charles Forepaugh, 91, of West Berlin, N. J., oldtime circus man (Fore-paugh's Aggregation, Forepaugh & Sells Bros.), "first trainer to place his head in a lion's mouth" (1874); in West Berlin...
...Manhattanite last week began to think that putting savings in a sock was perhaps not such a foolish idea. Just as state officials were making a final report on last February's City Trust Co. failure (TIME, Feb. 25), their statements shared headlines with first investigation of Clarke Bros., another Manhattan banking firm which last fortnight closed its doors. First reports put the Clarke failure at $4,000,000, gave depositors hope of getting 25 cents on the dollar. Later it seemed likely that the failure was for $5,000,000. that 5 cents on the dollar was the probable...
...Hollywood buzzed and bubbled over the Equity (actors' union) attempt to keep actors from signing film contracts that violated Equity rules and Warner Bros, announced a forthcoming super-talkie, titled Show of Shows, featuring John Barrymore and Al Jolson together for the first time on any stage...
Springing directly from the Silent Cinema, the Talking Cinema is controlled mainly by strong Silent Cinemen. Great film names, with sound and without, are Fox Film Corp., Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corp., Warner Bros., United Artists. Yet one potent Talking Cinema company backs its speaking present with no silent past. This company is opulent, many-branched Radio Corp. of America. In Photophone it has its own talking mechanism. In RKO Productions, Inc., it has its own production and distribution company. In General Electric and Westinghouse Electric it has tremendous laboratory resources. During 1929-30 there will be made 30 full-length...