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...proxy campaign to oust the management of Stewart-Warner Corp, (auto accessories) of which he claims he is one of the largest stockholders. His first publicity: the management lately issued an unqualified statement that employment ''had increased 70% in 30 days." This they did by using for comparison employment figures during the depths of the banking moratorium week. Audited figures showed an 8.7% gain in the last 30 days, a 9% gain from the week preceding the moratorium. To allow Mr. Zerk to flush more proxies, Stewart-Warner's annual meeting was postponed, for the second time...
...comparison of the records of prep school men and high school men at Harvard, Dartmouth and Princeton, quoted in today's "Princetonian" from the May issue of the "Harvard Advocate," presents some very interesting material. The figures show that at Harvard, where there is an approximately equal number of prep school and high school men, and at Princeton, where prep school men overwhelmingly predominate, the latter win the larger share of social and athletic honors. At Dartmouth, on the other hand, where public school graduates predominate, they suffer no inferiority in college activities. Scholastically, at all three colleges, public school...
...comparison with the situation at Dartmouth seems to prove, unfortunately, that Princeton is not a democratic institution. The problem, which goes right to the heart of the American educational system, is whether the public school graduate, generally at a financial and social disadvantage, can fit into the private university that is composed in large part of prep school men. The answer is not that the private college should adept a more rigid policy of exclusion which would thus tend to make it over more undemocratic and snobbish, but that it should make an effect to preserve an intelligently worked...
...Eagle and the Hawk (Paramount). What the sheik was to the comparatively repressed cinemaddicts of the early null the aviator is to audiences now. The contemporary hero does not entirely gain by the comparison. He is covered with grease and what he has to say for himself is frequently drowned out by the uproar of machine guns and propellers with which the talkies so constantly belie their name. In this picture routine shots and noises of planes taking off, landing, crashing, planes upside down, on their noses, in hangars or at war with each other serve almost to obliterate...
...fall. It remains wise and humorous, retains the air of spontaneity which translations so often lose. People who saw Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in Robert E. Sherwood's play may be amused by the way John Barrymore makes Lunt's fiercely romantic posturings seem tame by comparison, and by the enigmatic inflections Diana Wynyard gives the role which Miss Fontanne made lusty and spectacular. The decor of MGM's expert Cedric Gibbons, the direction of Sidney Franklin and the clever casting of Frank Morgan, who looks a little like Barrymore, for the role of Dr. Krug...