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...plot of the production hinges about a poor shopkeeper's family, which has risen to great wealth through a lucky number in a lottery. After tasting the pleasures acquired by its riches, the family returns to its former mode of life, which it considers far more enjoyable. Andre Lefaur, who created the original role of Topaze, in the recent play of the same name, which was produced in Franco before coming to this country, has the lead...
Folk who are decorating their homes with Victorian antiquities this autumn, in accordance with the mode, would do well to go and see the decorations which Robert Edmond Jones has provided for Camille. Producer Delos Chappell & wife, who first presented the revival at Central City, Colo. this summer (TIME, Aug. 1), have arranged their own translation of the script without, apparently, distinguishing it from previous translations. After four weeks in Manhattan, Camille, Miss Gish and the scenery will take to the road...
Last week not one censorious peep came from the nation's reformers when from Bernarr Macfadden's publishing house issued a magazine containing twelve photographic portraits in the nude. The subjects were cute, provocative, but not in the usual Macfadden mode. They were all infants. Announced two months ago (TIME, July 25), Mr. Macfadden's new monthly magazine Babies Just Babies was out, edited by Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt assisted by her daughter Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall...
...seizes my copy of TIME. And this, despite a copy which awaits him at home. Has a poor man no defense against such predatory action? Can I appeal to the U. S. Government? Can I appeal to the Editors of TIME to institute an advertising campaign (a la mode Buick Motors) advocating two-TiME families? If solicited, I am sure Mr. Rossheim would be proud to be the original two-TiMER. ROBERT S. THANHAUSER...
Angling Atlas. When general management investment trusts went out of favor, fixed trusts became the financial mode. Last week for the first time was offered the spectacle of a general management trust out to acquire fixed trust shares. The angler was Atlas Corp. (formerly Atlas Utilities Corp.), most aggressive of investment trusts, run by Floyd Odium. In making an offer to exchange its own shares for fixed trust shares it sought to enlarge its stockholders' list. Also, it will acquire blocks of stocks held by the fixed trusts which it can keep or sell, thus adding to its large...