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Like many another New England mill, Pepperell Manufacturing Co. has power plants, water power rights. Last week it was announced that Cumberland plans to buy $2,400,000 worth of these non-milling assets from Pepperell. Millside power properties have played a large part in Mr. Insull's conquest of New England territory. In some cases he has bought the mill as well, running it through depression to boost power earnings. But last week he did not have to go further into the textile business. Pepperell, with such specialties as Lady Pepperell Sheets, makes money, last year made...
Since New Year's, Frenchmen have celebrated with pomp & circumstance the hundredth anniversaries of Romanticism, of the conquest of Algeria, of the invention of the sewing machine.* Last week in Paris, their centennial enthusiasm undiminished, President Gaston Doumergue and Prime Minister André Tardieu clapped on their silk hats, motored to the Hotel de Ville behind a clattering escort of brass-helmeted cuirassiers of the Garde Républicaine to make oratory on the Hundredth Anniversary of the Revolution of 1830, which in three days of furious street fighting† swept Charles X from the throne of France, installed...
...agent pursued his conquest, went in for details. He heard further from trusting lips that because Manhattan Customs examiners searched only one in ten cases of goods on their piers, Mile Salzmann & friends would ship nine cases of watches, one case of earthenware or bronze pieces, consign the whole shipment as undutiable earthenware and bronze. For their plan to succeed and the dummy cases only to be searched, corruption of some of the Manhattan Customs examiners was obviously necessary...
...dowdy wife whose husband is tiring of her, and later, with an astonishing and somewhat overdramatic change in personality, a seductive divorcee. At a house-party given by an elderly woman she has met in Paris, she is called on to divert her former husband from making a conquest of the hostess' granddaughter. In casting and direction. Let Us Be Gay is an almost perfectly realized intention; it is distinguished by some wonderful acting by Marie Dressier as the sardonic, impatient dowager. Rod La Rocque and Gilbert Emery are in it too. Best shot: Marie Dressier at her knitting...
...genius and political wisdom will far surpass anything heretofore known in the history of the human race. We are on the threshold of a new world and the utilization of natural forces that were unthought of and undreamed of a few years ago. A new epoch of man, a conquest of nature, is just beginning...