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...been as well if they had let this one go and taken the next vehicle that came along. A. A. Milne has been termed a great man, but even great men cannot count upon the vagaries of the cinema world, and the havoc which Hollywood has wreaked upon "The Dover Road," an enjoyable play, is so remarkable that even the genius that was once Diana Wynyard cannot pull...
...Where Sinners Meet" is cast in the house of a millionaire on the Dover Road, England; the master of the house spends his life trying to aid the oppressed and the love lorn. American ideas of the English are surprisingly amusing, and at times highly annoying, but any breath of an English accent is as nectar to the American public and per se assures the picture of success, as is borne out by the reactions of the audience in the present case. So also any joke which the audience does not catch, goes as an extremely subtle Anglicism and draws...
...Anaconda, Mont. U. S. Steel meets at Hoboken, N. J., where it serves a light lunch. Not all big U. S. corporations seek inaccessible spots. Of the 29 with the largest number of U. S. stockholders, eight meet in New York, five in Wilmington, two each in Baltimore, Philadelphia. Dover...
...Dover (pop. 4,800) is the nation's third smallest State capital.* Its main street is a continuation of famed du Pont highway. Facing the highway, a handsome Colonial building on a spacious green houses minuscule Delaware's equally minuscule General Assembly. In the House there are 21 Democrats, 14 Republicans. The Republicans control the Senate of 17 by one vote. Because Dover is no more than 60 mi. from any adjoining State border, Delaware's 52 Legislators for the most part commute to work by automobile. One hundred and fifty other State officials and employes live...
Last week Dover elected as mayor for his tenth term John Wallace Woodford. secretary of Richardson & Robbins, a big Mason and an eloquent orator who learned his art from a correspondence school. Mayor Woodford receives no salary, tiny Dover being run by a city manager. His victory was also tiny. He received all of the 26 votes cast...