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...bicyclist and rides victoriously into the finish of a bicycle race. He progressively masters burgher manners and the industrial system, becomes owner of a phonograph shop, then a department store, then a vast phonograph factory, in which mass production and prison methods are satirically interlined. The second convict, Emile (Henri Marchand), free at last, a wistful champion of the bill of rights, is jailed again for singing to flowers. Again he escapes, chases a pretty girl (Rolla France) into the phonograph factory, is herded into line, disrupts the phonograph-assembling routine with his fumbling individualism, finally confronts the phonograph tycoon...
...world, gathered to come to terms with Russia. Momentous was the fact that for the first time Royal Dutch-Shell was prepared to forget the seizure of its wells in the Caucasus and to talk co-operation with Russia. Royal Dutch-Shell was represented not by swart Sir Henri Deterding, whose White Russian wife is another reason for his hating Red Russia, but by Jean Baptiste August Kessler, 45, whose father founded Royal Dutch, employed Sir Henri as his secretary. Royal Dutch's Kessler now has the position of managing director while Sir Henri is director-general. Chief Russian...
...Henri Miles David '33 of Arlington, was elected captain of the University lacrosse team at a meeting of lettermen yesterday. David prepared at the Browne and Nichols School, and has been a member of the University Instrumental Clubs since his Freshman year, besides playing on the Freshman hockey team and rowing on the 1933 crew...
...Henri E. Chabanne of Tompkins Corners, N. Y. won the Prix de Rome award in landscape architecture last week for his solution of the problem: "The development of an addition to a private estate." The announcement caused excitement because Landscape Architect Chabanne never went to Yale, has nothing to do with the Yale School of Fine Arts. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, has been working for a year with the Taconic State Park Commission at Poughkeepsie...
...Italy, Egypt. The French, defending Davis Cup champions since 1927, were alarmed, but not by numbers. They knew that only three nations had a chance and that at least one new tennis phenomenon must be found to take the Davis Cup away from France. Failing the phenomenal, aging (32) Henri Cochet would be enough to keep it another year in France especially if aided by Jean Borotra, 33. Also at hand this year is Rene Lacoste, 27, who helped take the Cup from the U. S. in 1927, retired in 1929 and will attempt a comeback this week against...