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Insolent Clerks Sirs: I am a subscriber since 1923 at Panama, C. Z. I have always abstained from writing letters that more or less annoy you besides taking up space in your glorious magazine. But the culmination of rage sizzles for expression within me. On p. 14, Oct. 1, issue in third column, under caption "Relief" appears: 1,200 tons of food 3,490 tons of misc. supplies 10 days provisions for 100,000 people, etc. All to be distributed to the poor devils, victims of the tremendous hurricane in Porto Rico. I can imagine the anxiety of those people...
Since all Empires have been bought with blood, and since all Emperors have been deemed glorious, Shoe Tycoon Bat'a need not necessarily mind that the International Federation of Trade Unions has officially denounced him thus...
...Genji proved himself master of the delectable art of making love. In the fourth, with old age creeping on, he proves himself master of the art of being betrayed. Kashiwagi, Prince Genji's friend, cuckolds him with his girl-bride, Nyosan. In the fury of discovery Genji plans glorious revenge. But his usual dignity, mellowed by age, prevents him from hasty action, and allows of reconsideration. For it has occurred to him that in his youth he had seduced a concubine of the old Emperor, his own father, and though the old man must have known perfectly well what...
...should he be given an Olympic diploma along with Lindbergh and Gerbault (TIME, Aug. 6)? I have no doubt whatever that he deserved it, but being something of a hero-worshipper I would like a description of just what "Potent Pigeon" accomplished that I have overlooked in the glorious annals of American sportsmanship...
...without interruption through the entire film. Many critics believe that comedies and news features are the only entertaining vehicles for the talkies. In full-length drama-films, Movietone uses synchronized orchestra accompaniment, occasional songs, but no spoken dialog. Vitaphone has put dialog into its The Lion and the Mouse, Glorious Betsy, Tenderloin. These films run along quietly and then, at dramatic moments, burst into dialog. The effect is startling, but often annoying. Vitaphone plans the following new talking and singing films: Al Jolson in The Singing Fool, Fannie Brice in My Man, Dolores Costello in Noah...