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Sapeloe is one of the southern chain of American sea-islands mentioned in Icelandic sagas of the loth century as part of Huitramanaland or Great Ireland. Portuguese sailors supplied data for a map which showed the islands in 1502. The Spanish arrived in 1512 and called the broad-beached land they found the "Golden Islands." It was from one of their missions, San José de Zapalo, that Sapeloe's name is derived...
...Wilkins with his airplane pilot Lieutenant Carl Ben Eielson, last week, discovered that Graham Land is separate from the Antarctic continent. Between them is an ice-covered strait. Graham Land itself seems to be fringed with an archipelago. Between a great plateau to its north and a double mountain chain to its south is a broad expanse of white, which may indicate a valley or another strait...
Divorced. James Cash Penney, Jr., glider enthusiast, son of the famed chain store tycoon and devout Methodist benefactor of Whiteplains, N. Y., & Miami; by Marie Louise du Coudray Penney of Manhattan. Two days after their marriage in 1924 the Penneys were separated...
...companies (not for the creation of a holding company) with a stock exchange, terms of which have not been announced. As the result of various recent mergers, Radio Corp. now controls or is affiliated with Victor Talking Machine, Radio-Keith-Orpheum (with its outlet for the Photophone) theatre chain, National Broadcasting Co. chain, Film Booking Offices, Inc., cinema producers, exhibitors...
British Cinema. The two largest organizations in British cinema last week merged to form a $70,000,000 unit controlling some 300 British theatres. Gaumont British Corporation acquired control of Provincial Cinematograph Theatres Ltd. Gaumont has been both producer and exhibitor; Provincial is solely an exhibition chain. Gaumont has a sound-picture device, called the "British acoustics system." There is also an Anglo-German "talkie," better than British "acoustics," comparable with the U.S. talking picture machines. Either British acoustics or the Anglo-German mechanism will presumably be installed in the Gaumont houses, to the exclusion of U.S. sound pictures...