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Back Street (Universal). Fannie Hurst's tender and moving biography of a kept woman is here reproduced in a sincere, detailed picture. Irene Dunne is the big-hearted daughter of a German notion-store keeper in Cincinnati. She falls in love with John Boles, a pedigreed young banker, who by a series of misunderstandings, makes her his mistress instead of his wife. Though Boles is selfish and niggardly, she rejects an old sweetheart who offers her position and wealth. The young banker becomes a big banker, supported by his mistress' advice. Going to Europe on a Reparations commission, he takes...
Chesapeake & Ohio, with the Van Sweringens' Nickel Plate (Buffalo-Chicago-St. Louis), Erie (Jersey City-Chicago-Cincinnati) and Pere Marquette (Buffalo-Detroit-Chicago) gets 24½% of the total trackage. Instead of Lackawanna, as proposed originally by the I. C. C., it is given Lehigh Valley (New York-Buffalo) which puts its system into Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station. It also gets a branch of the Lackawanna to Oswego. Other C. & O. roads: Bessemer & Lake Erie, Wheeling & Lake Erie...
...between individual lines but between systems. Thus out of New York N. Y. C. and Lackawanna, in the same system, would compete against Erie and Lehigh Valley in another system. Four-way system competition would be preserved at such important centres as Buffalo, Toledo, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis. Cincinnati, Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Only the B. & O. would fail to get into Norfolk. No important city which now has competition between two railroads would get less under the merger plan...
...admirer of the U. S., Author Priestley contrives to have his hero bored by a Cincinnati Babbitt who remarks of his library of tourist literature: "I guess I've got the most complete one in the States." More profound and more profitable than Author Priestley's knowledge of U. S. idiom is his knowledge of how to give unreal characters an air of reality by letting them sit down in out-of-the-way places to chat about everyday matters like sex, communism, the cinema, debauchery, patriotism, honesty. The ramblings of Author Priestley's invention are limitless. They make Faraway...
...Cincinnati, Judge Samuel W. Bell was disturbed by the hammering of an electrician outside his courtroom. Ordering him sent in, irate Judge Bell sentenced Electrician Ray Burke to five days in jail for "disturbing the peace...