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...Before the Society of Motion Picture Engineers at Rochester, N. Y., Board Chairman Merlin Hall Aylesworth of Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. demanded higher cinema admission prices, declared: "The wasteful, injurious practice . . . of giving away one Grade A picture with one Grade B picture is like eating too much ice cream at one time." Stricken in Hollywood with bronchial pneumonia lay Cinemactress Norma Shearer, widow of famed Producer Irving Thalberg who died last month of lobar pneumonia (TIME, Sept...
...Children, I Speak to You!" At 5:30 p.m. the day after he arrived in India the cream & gold Viceregal Train brought Lord Linlithgow to New Delhi. Out stepped the tallest Viceroy of India ever, with his 6-foot Marchioness and their three young and pretty daughters, Lady Anne, Lady Joan and Lady Doreen Hope. With cannon thundering the 31 guns of the Viceregal salute, the Hopes of India drove off in a carriage drawn by six prancing bays, guarded before and behind by cavalry & the Viceroy's Body Guard, their tunics eddying in glittering waves of scarlet...
...great banquet in the railroad station ($7.50 a plate for cantaloupe. Philadelphia pepper pot, fresh salmon. Virginia lamb, ice cream and California wine) was marred by the conspicuous presence of two rows of unoccupied tables. It was enlivened by Secretary Ickes' speech declaring that reducing electric rates was a high duty of government, by Floyd Carlisle's point that utilities, unlike railroads, banks, farmers and many others, had not had to call on the Government for financial aid in Depression...
According to Minnesota's Governor Petersen, the President once addressed his opponent by saying, "Now, Alf Landon. if you take my place. . . ." It was also reported that the President had given' up trying to eat his hard-frozen dessert of ice cream ball & shredded cocoanut after it had repeatedly skidded out from under his spoon...
...distributor to buy or a retailer to sell milk below prices set by the Agricultural Commissioner. Under these regulations wholesale milk prices varied according to the use the milk was put to. Drinking milk was in one class, brought $2.45 per cwt.* Milk to be made into ice cream, butter, cheese brought from $1.20 to $1.90. On the average, after deductions for freight and handling many a farmer netted only about...