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Asked concerning the growth of Hollywood, Mr. Lyon said. "20 years ago, Hollywood was nothing but orange groves and fig trees. It has grown with the motion picture business. Where 20 years ago there was plowed ground and fruit trees, six and seven story Buildings now stand. Hollywood is just one large institution. Boston is a city where there are many industries, many manufacturing plants and people engaged in many trades. Hollywood is different, It centers around the moving picture business entirely. Very little that doesn't pertain to pictures, happens out there...
...have caught the modern dream element. R. H. Sanger has the spirit of the trick when he writes,--"Hard squeaking sounds grew out of the distance. A door clanged metallically and an indistinct voice shouted 'Zzzzzzz-- Hall! -- -- -- Had he slept twenty years to find a new city grown up on the brown stone ashes of the old Borough." Apart from the dream introduction, there is nothing in his story of crooks, policemen, and the misguided poor, which could not appear fittingly in the more widely read periodicals of the country...
...reports have grown since William Wood, organizer of the American Woolen Co., committed suicide last year (TIME, Feb. 15, 1926). Since 1924, the company has been losing money. The loss then was $6,944,420. Last year, according to the annual report issued last week, the loss...
...Morton (Robert F. Ross), struggling against the materialism of his family who object to bequeathing their best hill to the state for the erection of a college that will preserve "the best that has been thought and said." But in 1879, Morton College is founded. By 1920, it has grown so that state appropriations are needed for further expansion. Senator Lewis advises the College president, descendant of the founder, to muffle the voice of radical Professor Holden (Sayre Crawley) if he expects government aid. This is done, but the president cannot throttle Madeline (Josephine Hutchinson), granddaughter of the founder...
Looking into the future, Commander MacMillan said, "When your generation is grown up, you will be making yearly excursions to the North Pole regions. My generation will find it and yours will develop...