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...Forest, longtime radio experimenter and inventor, newly-elected president of the Institute of Radio Engineers, exclaimed in his inaugural address...
Thoughtful national advertisers, long aware that radio advertising is powerful and comparatively cheap,* might well be moved by potent Radioman De Forest's warning, mend their ways. A father also of sound cinema, Inventor De Forest felt privileged to add : "In both studio recording and theatre reproducing a most deplorable result of engineering indigestion exists. The profession has bitten off more than it can chew, and the resultant bellyache must be endured by the theatre-going public...
There was, of course, nothing literally new, even in the year 1079, about the stretch of timberland, oak, ash and thorn, patched with open spaces of bog and heath, between the Solent, Southampton Water and the Avon. William the Conquerer only called it "New Forest" because it was connected with a new idea of his. Seeing how the farms of Hampshire, unrolling like green quilts, were slowly pushing away the woods, he set New Forest aside as a place for trees to grow and noblemen to hunt. For a long time any rogue caught killing the king's deer...
Last week it was announced that a tract unlike anything since the New Forest has been created in the U. S. Not kings but rich sportsmen will ride there, hunting foxes instead of stags. They have formed an organization, Southern Grasslands Hunt & Racing Foundation. They plan to raise $3,000,000. Memberships are $10,000 each. In Sumner County, Tennessee, they have bought about 15,000 acres (23 sq. mi.) of land to gallop over-rolling grass country, dotted with farms. They plan an endowment for the land's upkeep in perpetuity. It is the biggest tract made safe...
...When he started to write plays (Ivanov, Uncle Vanya, The Sea Gull, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard} he got to know the members of Stanislavsky's famed Moscow Art Theatre, married Ac tress Olga Knipper. In 1904 Author Chekhov, 44, died at Badenweiler in the Black Forest. Author of a dozen plays, hundreds of short stories, he never wrote a novel. Though Chekhov has been called "the Russian Maupassant," all good Chekhovians think this intended praise too faint, think a reversal of the phrase would give Maupassant too much credit...