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...against the 14,661 ft. Matterhorn, and Mount Everest...
...Department of Justice, puttering dutifully about lurid Hollywood, Calif., discovered recently an armored truck in the garage of one Herbert Sandburn. Questioned, Mr. Sandburn volubly explained that a Mexican, Senor Benjamin Roqe, had commissioned him to equip four heavy trucks with armor plate-each truck to mount two one-pound cannon and four machine guns. Only one truck had been completed. Dissimulating their suspicions, assuring Mr. Sandburn that they believed him when he said the trucks were to be used for pay roll transport, the agents of the Department of Justice began to sleuth. . . . Early one evening last week...
...about 700 miles away). In Bering Sea, a Japanese steamer stood by to behold a long, heavy eruption of Bogoslof, a volcanic island near the eastern end of the Aleutian chain, evidently a continuance of the terrestrial colly wobbles suffered by that region during the past year, in which Mount McKinley, far inland in Alaska, has several times been reported as participating...
...Scarlet Letter (Lillian Gish). This latest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release preserves in spirit, mood, sequence, the true proportions of Hawthorne's novel. Praise for a picture can mount no higher. Hester Prynne and Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale break the seventh commandment. The heavy rod of seventeenth century New England righteousness falls upon them both -upon Hester socially, upon Dimmesdale spiritually. In spite of numerous opportunities for sentimental errata, the film records truly, as the novelist saw, the inevitably tragic and ennobling consequences of their suffering. One might wish that the bravery and sacrifice of the Puritan community had been represented...
Died. Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, fourth Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 85, twice challenger for the famed America's (yachting) Cup (with Valkyrie II, 1893 and Valkyrie III, 1895, both designed by Watson; defeated respectively by Vigilant and Defender, both designed by Herreshoff) ; at London...