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Kimiko (Photographic Chemical Laboratories) is the first Japanese talking picture to be exhibited in the U. S. Shown last week at Manhattan's Filmarte Theatre, which specializes in importations, its net effect was to bore ordinary cinemaddicts, please amateurs of the curious and reassure Hollywood producers that Japan's prolific cinema industry is not a serious menace. Story of Kimiko concerns a domestic crisis in the up-to-date Yamamoto family. Thinking to arrange a reconciliation between her mother, Etsuko Yamamoto, with whom she lives, and her father, Shunsaku Yamamoto, who long ago ran off with a geisha...
Saturday Evening Post this week reported net sales of 3,200,000 copies of its issue of March 6: claimed all-time U. S. record for sales of single issue of a magazine...
Despite Lewis' interference, Colville got the puck away. It hit the broad stick of Detroit's Goalie Earl Robertson, bounced off onto the stick of Ranger Babe Pratt, who sent it into the Detroit net. To the crowd it looked like a goal. Referee Mickey Ion ruled that, since he had blown his whistle to stop play before the puck went in, the goal did not count. A goal for the Rangers would have tied the score, 1-all, in the second period of the deciding game of the final series for the Stanley Cup, hockey...
Ships. At the close of 1936 there were 867 U. S. and Canadian steamers, motorships and barges with a combined tonnage of 3,323,105 gross tons plying the Great Lakes. During the season they transported 50,200,666 net tons of ore, 44,699,443 tons of coal, 7,433,967 tons of grain and 12,080,672 tons of limestone to and from lake ports. From Duluth, Superior, Escanaba, they brought ore to the mills of Gary, South Chicago and Cleveland, to Ashtabula and Conneaut to be transshipped by rail to Pittsburgh, Youngstown, Bethlehem. Reloading at Toledo...
There was no visible or audible audience reaction because, according to London journalists, Britishers "assume that when a performer leaves the stage the act is over." They were genuinely surprised when Miss Raye reappeared long enough to shed her dress completely, revealing her torso heavily enmeshed in spangled net. London's press reported next day that "after a long silence 'some few people clapped miserably'," but meanwhile the hardboiled, factual London scout of Broadway's stage sheet Variety cabled...