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Britain. Said famed Director J. H. Graham Cutts, producer of the first British film to win international success (Woman to Woman) last week: "I am not going to work for the pocket-money fees now offered British directors. I have bought a roadhouse. The competition of talkies from the other side makes Britain's film future wholly obscure...
Vexed by his losses at Monte Carlo, an indignant player in sleek evening clothes rose from one of the roulette tables last week, extracted a hand grenade from his tailcoat pocket, tossed it onto the wheel where the little ball spun, then quickly made his escape amid panic...
Last week Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick appeared before the Senate Campaign Expenditure Committee to reveal that she had spent, almost entirely out of her own pocket, $252,572 to win the Republican senatorial nomination in Illinois in last month's primary against Senator Charles Samuel Deneen (TIME, April 21). Senator Deneen's expenditures, he said, were $24,493. Tapping a file of vouchers two inches thick, Senate Nominee McCormick cited as examples of her expenses: printing, $26,000; mailing, $20,881; county organizations, $107,518; postage, $12,432; "colored department," $8,090; newspaper advertising...
...course Mrs. Hughes' work is no pretentious study of English culture. It aims to be only a handy pocket size travel-guide book that attempts to pin between its pages a goodly share of the charm that makes England so dear to those who know it. To carry out her purpose the author gives the reader something of an understanding of the English and things English. In this sense it is, comparatively speaking, as broadening as an actual journey across the Atlantic, and it should be of no slight assistance to those planning such a voyage...
...Bridgetown, N. J., Walter Peterson, II, was brought to police headquarters, charged with pilfering gas meters. Asked what was bulging in his pocket, he answered: "Nothing that would interest." A suspicious sergeant then wrested a tin box from him, said: "Yes, it is, and you've been smoking too." He opened the box, spryly jumped away when 25 watersnakes slithered out, demanded that Walter gather up the serpents and leave...