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...leader, he is called to Hollywood for the great opportunity. He leaves his girl, Rita (Evelyn Daw), to wait until he has demonstrated once more how a star is born. Studio specialists on clothes, coiffure, and voice view him with alarm. He refuses a Robert Taylor widow's peak, practices voice culture with, "The Dyuke blyew on his hunting horn and loffed, ha, ha, ha, when the hounds came running." Baffled by pear- shaped vowels, he escapes to the set where the old Cagney reasserts itself in two brawls, one in the script, the other extemporaneous...
...saying that everything which goes down must come up. But the market did not go up far, did not stay up long. Trading on the New York Stock Exchange, after soaring above 2,000,000 shares thrice in a month, fell back into its recent rut. By the peak of the rally, the Dow-Jones industrial averages had climbed only from...
...clock: Here's the peak crowd--four hundred through in just over an hour. Watch these solicitors along the back of Memorial and on the sidewalk. The way they yell and wave paper at everyone coming out they look just like--"Pardon me, chum; but is this place being picketed?" Well, you might think so; but John L. Lewis' son enrolled at Princeton today instead...
...Social Service committee primarily is interested in introducing the undergraduate to the Settlement Houses. In these settlement houses there is an opportunity for coaching athletics, dramatics, for teaching music, English and civics to naturalization classes, for leading discussion groups and organizing boys clubs. Last year at the peak of activity there were 209 men doing this work. In addition, this committee during the past year has become interested in the problems of juvenile delinquency and the prevention of crime, and they offer in this line an opportunity to visit the local prisons and to meet the men engaged...
...depths of 1933 depression. Its hefty size, he-man articles, sexy cartoons and drawings of flashy men's fashions immediately found it a public favor never achieved by less flamboyant aspirants such as Vanity Fair. Despite its 50? price, Esquire boomed at once, last February reached a peak circulation of 610,000. For the fiscal year ended March 1937 it had a gross advertising revenue of $2,770,000, circulation revenue...