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...ALFALFA BILL" [TIME, Feb. 29] STOP TIME FALTERED ONLY IN COMPARING MURREYS RUGGED HONESTY WITH THAT OF CLEVELAND STOP DO YOU THINK THE GREAT GROVER WOULD PUBLISH A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER SEND BLACKJACK ADVERTISING SOLICITORS TO PATRONS OF THE STATE BOARD OF AFFAIRS ADVISING THEM TO ADVERTISE IN WORTHLESS MEDIUM AT HIGH RATE IF THEY DESIRE TO CONTINUE TO DO BUSINESS WITH THE STATE...
...revolt against the clanking, clattering Machine Age last week were leading citizens of Montreal. Solemnly they marched 100 strong to a conveniently open space near the Canadian National Railway tracks. There workmen, spitting on their hands, took shovels and dug swiftly a medium-sized hole. In it was buried a toy steamshovel, symbol of the Machine...
...They have been cinemactors exclusively since 1925. The appearance of both in the same picture last week indicated that it is now merely sentimental to regard the Barrymores as the royal family of the stage and it italicized the dispute about whether, histrionically, the cinema is a more important medium than the theatre...
...atmosphere which Director von Sternberg cleverly built up through the slow beginning of the picture and the brilliant photographic effects achieved by his camera man, Lee Garmes, have effect of giving this melodramatic cliché a reality which it could not possibly achieve in a medium less persuasive than the cinema. Because the cars, the engines, the soldiers, the flags and noises of cities through which the Shanghai express passes are thoroughly realistic, the villainies of Mr. Chang and even the curiously elaborate speeches written for Clive Brook seem real also. Miss Dietrich's legs are not so evident...
...followers would not have been long bereft. Radio could easily provide another continued story or comedy sketch to fill its place. Radio is a practiced handmaiden of entertainment. But when "The March of Time" ends, Radio has no substitute at hand. For all its blatant claim to being a medium for education, Radio contributes little of its own beyond the considerable service of bringing good music to the millions. (Yet radiomen sputter with rage when the Radio is called "just another musical instrument...