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...press the button. We do the rest." The development of a flexible, transparent photographic film in 1889 coincided with Thomas Alva Edison's early cinema experiments. Edison bought $2.50 worth of Eastman film, turned to an assistant and said: "That's it [the film]?now work like hell [on the camera...
...Eskimos have many tabus. They believe in spirits, in a cold, horrible Hell and a Heaven at the bottom of the sea, ruled over by the Great Goddess Nuliayok. The Eskimo language is difficult. How did Monsignor Turquetil, an Oblate Father journeying from France to Canada in 1900 at the age of 24?how did he shepherd 7,000 scattered souls during his 30 icy years? How gain entry to the Eskimo hut, be welcomed with "Qujangnamik...
...that Mrs. Horatio Alger, had she existed, would probably have longed to write. If Horatio's city boys were exemplary, the city girls of Mrs. Vina Delmar Alger are examples. While his boys swarmed up the ladders of success, her girls skid softly down self-greased ways to hell. His boys could not tell sex from a horsecar, her girls know skyscrapers are phallic. Though writing in this general drift (Bad Girl, Loose Ladies, Kept Woman], Authoress Delmar manages to steer her novels into waters of some depth. She is serious, sincere, sympathetic. At her best she grants...
...that brings up the rear in a procession of type pictures is sure to be at a disadvantage, whether it be of the gangster, or convict genre. When all the cards have been played, there is little novelty to be gained by reshuffling. Only rarely can a film like "Hell's Angels" cap all that has gone before...
...Hell's bells! It's idiotic and astounding! The President wants to create some new offices. Gosh, we want to abolish bureaus and commissions. I don't think the country wants any new offices at this time. ... As for reorganization, why doesn't the President say how he wants it done? He just generalizes as he always does...