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...queerness. They become occasional companions though never intimates. Sir Bussy's intellect is insatiable, restless; he has the money to gratify his curiosity. When he decides to investigate spiritualism, he does it thoroughly, holding seances in specially-constructed laboratories. At one of these seances, "ectoplasm" from the medium takes independent shape, absorbs Mr. Parham, announces itself as the Lord Paramount, savior-dictator of England. Sir Bussy and his skeptical companions acknowledge the dictator, do his bidding. There is a coup d'état, Parliament is closed, England put under martial law. The Lord Paramount wants...
Circulation dwindled to 31,000 in 1925; 22,000 in 1928; less than 20,000 this year. Once a favored advertising medium, member of the self-respecting "Quality Group,"* Century carried in its spring issue only five pages of advertising other than its own publisher...
Forum, with its 90,000 circulation and bountiful advertising, has little to gain by the merger, save to clear its cluttered field of one element of competition, and speed the swing of public taste away from the Victorian "genteel literary magazine" toward the virile, provocative medium for present-day skeptics. The joint title, Forum & Century will not affect its tactics while Editor Henry Goddard Leach remains...
...year old director, who has gained world fame for the intense vigor of his use of the newest medium of art, was entirely at ease with the reporters gathered from the metropolitan papers, who hurled questions at him concerning his likes and dislikes of various box office stars. Most of the questions he parried or answered in subtle ambigulties which left the scribes at a loss to understand. True to his idea of how a moving picture should be made, he stated that he would continue to use characters who had impressed him with their faces and not with their...
Even if it had been the effort of unknowns, Christopher Columbus would still have provoked a lively reaction. It employed a medium new to opera: the moving picture. Columbus lived his outward life upon the stage?a tragic life lacking ultimate reward because the land he discovered was given the name of another. Simultaneously, somewhat in the manner of Playwright Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude* there were sometimes shown on the screen his inner thoughts, sometimes his past or future, sometimes the ridicule of others against which he had always to contend. The chorus, too, behaved oddly...