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...sorts, are likely to find him a little too outmoded. The device used to circumvent this possibility in The Go-Getter is the elaborate but effective one of opening the action with the 1935 wreck of the dirigible Macon and presenting, as the picture's romantic lead, a heroic survivor who has lost a leg in that comparatively up-to-date catastrophe. The story thereafter concerns the efforts of Go-Getter Bill Austin (George Brent) to make a place for himself in the Ricks Lumber and Navigation Co. and to marry dear little Margaret Ricks (Anita Louise). Little Margaret...
Founded on uncertainty, dedicated to illusion, the $2,000,000,000 cinema industry every year makes one monumental effort to seem prudent, predictable and precise. This effort, in itself the most heroic of the industry's whims, occurs every spring when the producers assemble their salesmen for annual conventions. Purpose of conventions is to excite enthusiasm. Procedure is to boast as loudly as possible about lists of forthcoming productions. By last week two major conventions were over, six more were scheduled for the near future. From pages of ballyhoo in magazines, newspapers, trade publications, cinemaddicts got some idea...
...when old Senator Mayne of Mishawauka said the candidate was incompetent, refused to endorse him. Unexpected opposition came from influential Ferris Branolsky, a tireless fanatic in tracing the smells from big receiverships. The first obstacle to be removed was old Senator Mayne, who died of a stroke in a heroic but futile filibuster against a routine bill to pay foreign bond holders in present devalued currency. It took a good deal of very practical politics, but the appointment assuring Charley Squires' $100,000 was droned out unopposed in the hectic closing session of the Senate...
...outset, the Sixth Massachusetts Infantry, chased through Baltimore by Southern-sympathizing rioters, was saved by heroic Mayor George William Brown, who brandished his umbrella at the mobsters, and 50 policemen who overawed the crowd with their drawn revolvers. Fifteen citizens and soldiers were killed that day. Next thing Baltimore knew, Federal guns were staring from Federal Hill, and the city was under the thumb of officious, punch-drunk General Benjamin ("Beast") Butler. A warm Southern sympathizer and States' rights man. Publisher Abell had his choice of keeping editorially mum or being deprived of his newspaper, thrown in jail...
From the levelling and standardization of industrialism in the mid-nineteenth century, Brahms stood out as the most heroic of composers. In spite of the machine civilization, for years he wrote and conducted great symphonies. When in 1896 he came to Berlin he little suspected it was the last time he would grasp a baton. His friend Joachim, the famous protege of Mendelssohn, gave a dinner for him before the performance. By now he showed many marks of age; his much-admired "St. John's head" and his full white beard combined to make him quite leonine. Children, whom...