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George V, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India, rode in state down the Strand last week to the just-finished pile of India House on Aldwych, passed smiling between lines of gold-braided officialdom, mounted the Throne of India guarded by four gigantic Indian Orderlies in red and black, and faced his own specially designed gold and silver microphone...
Turksib (Amkino). Two shining steel rails creep northward under a round bonfire sun into the desert where skinny Mongolians pile up the sand to support them . . . northward into frozen ground, over mountain beds torn out by dynamite, on trestles over glacial rivers. Turksib is a translation of the Russian nickname for the Turkestan-Siberian Railroad, 897 mi. long joining Siberia and Turkestan (TIME, May 12). As Director Sergie Eisenstein dramatized modern brains coming into Russian farm country (TIME, May 19), so now Director Victor Turin tells the story of the building of the Turksib. Turin's newsreel is less interesting...
Harvard's baseball team sank to its low point of the year, Saturday at Soldiers Field when the Holy Cross team wore itself out romping around the bases to pile up a total of 22 runs, while the scoreboard showed nine goose eggs for the Crimson. The University diamond forces showed a surprising slump in all departments of the game; two pitchers were knocked off the mound and nine errors were chalked up against the Cambridge nine...
...Kuniyoshi (TIME, April 7). And Brooklyn has an art museum which is by no means en echo of Manhattan's giant Metropolitan, but an important, lively institution in its own right. Last week several heroic pieces of statuary were set up on the tecrace before this immense Roman pile, designed by McKim, Mead & White. Heralds were they of a great exhibition of sculpture by U. S. citizens and foreigners working in the U. S. which was opened in, and served to inaugurate, the museum's vast sculpture court. Few displays in the U. S. have compared-with...
...subduing the Harvard efforts at batting, allowing six scattered hits which failed to bring the Crimson forces into a scoring position. The Brown team netted only six hits off Boyer, the Harvard hurler, but sloppy fielding and wild throws on the part of the Freshmen allowed the visitors to pile up their nine runs...