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...still available for service. By giving work on alternate weeks the Committee is able to give attention to 575 families. Since the Committee spends approximately $1200 every day of fair weather with the money on hand and installments not yet paid, it will be able to function for six more weeks. Most of the men on the payroll of the society are at work on the Fresh Pond reservation golf course...
...title of this picture and the fact that Chic Sale acts in it, into supposing that it has some connection with The Specialist, a highly successful monolog on outhouses which Mr. Sale wrote and performed in vaudeville. Though the title is a delusion, it is not likely to function as a snare. Cinemaddicts who enjoyed The Specialist will be disappointed to find that The Expert is harmless in a different way. It is about a dithering patriarch, his son and daughter-in-law, and a neighboring waif (Dickie Moore)-a profligate adaptation of Edna Ferber's story...
Unlike a newspaper, which sells advertising in order to fulfill its prime function of giving news, the advertisement is Radio's prime offering. Also unlike a newspaper, which increases its pages along with any increase in advertising, Radio is restricted to the hours of the day. Of those hours it sells as many as it can. Naturally the evening hours, when most listeners are tuned in-the "front page" of radio-is virtually the property of the advertiser to do with as he pleases...
...Poetry Room were to be open during the mornings as well as during the afternoons its value for the casual reader would be greatly increased. As its chief function is to make available a fine library of poetry to all who wish to come and browse, it should not deliberately close its doors at a time when it would be most used. The denizen of the house plan must traverse many dreary leagues before reaching the security of Widener's shadow. It is only during the morning, when he is of necessity drawn to the Yard because of classes, that...
President Henry U. Sims of the American Bar Association estimated the judicial worth of Judge Cardozo, on his 60th birthday, thus: "Probably no one has contributed so much as Chief Judge Cardozo, unless it be Dean Roscoe Pound, toward clarifying for the legal world the function of the judge in shaping and developing...