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...House on 56th Street (Warner). The story of a Manhattan residence. built for a bride in 1905 and re-opened as a speakeasy and gambling den in 1933, could contain material for a first-rate picture. The story of The House on 56th Street fails to do it justice. It is a gloomy but only mildly exciting chronicle about a turn-of-the-century chorus girl whose characteristic for being present at deaths by violence makes the house on 56th Street resemble a shooting box. Peggy Van Tyle (Kay Francis) enters it first as the happy bride of a slick...
...this date, the Cambridge City Council voted at a meeting last night, the polls will be open to the public from ten until eight o'clock for a special vote on the liquor question. The ballot which will be presented to the people on that date will contain two provisions only: "a. Shall licenses be issued allowing the sale of hard liquors such as rum, whiskey and gin? b.--Shall licenses be issued allowing the sale of wines and malt liquors?" If, however, one per cent of the registered voters, 430 persons, so petition, a clause may be added...
FEARING that the American short story would be doomed if brilliant unheard of authors were denied the opportunity to have their stories published. Whit Burnett and Martha Foley, with encouragement from Edward J. O'Brien, undertook the un-remunerative task of publishing a new magazine, "Story," to contain almost exclusively stories which had been rejected because the authors were unknown, or which were refused because the style or material was considered unorthodox by editors in the leading magazines in the United States. This was a bold step since so many little magazines have started in the past decade, and have...
...children. Tiny Tower, published by Tower Magazines, Inc., is to be sold, like the four other Tower products (Home, Mystery, New Movie, Love) in Woolworth stores for 10?. In addition to stories about cats, pictures of Puppety Pops and verses with dangerous rhymes, the first issue of Tiny Tower contained a page of jokes and puzzles, a page of magic tricks, cut-out patterns, innumerable marginal drawings and an advertisement, on the back page, for Royal typewriters. Because Tower executives believe that the children's field contains great possibilities, future issues of Tiny Tower will contain more advertising...
...cabin aboard The Liberty she haughtily received the manager of London's Saturday Review, which she owns. Cringingly he told her that the leading wholesale newsdealers of Great Britain, on advice of their solicitors, had refused to distribute the next copy of the Saturday Review if it should contain, as planned, Lady Houston's personally penned opinion of the Prime Minister...