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...aids in the maintenance of a tradition, of no small value to both countries. Not until whole crews, track teams entire, and complete chapters of Phi Beta Kappa sail for English shores can the pessimist, English or American have any grounds for worry about the gravity of that American problem...
...against money. On almost every page he takes a nasty crack at it. The story is of two girls, one of whom married a man who quickly became rich. The other married a chemist to whom Science was all and Mammon a despicable deity. A penetrating study of the problem of money and why not to want...
...Comedian. Lionel Atwill is confronted with the problem of aging gracefully in a few minutes. He appears as a distinguished actor whose mail is freighted with scented trifles. Among the young hearts fluttered by his brown wig and moustache is the adolescent ward of an old schoolmate of his. The latter, a rotund provincial, conceives a plan to break her of her attachment. Let her, thinks he, but see her idol as he is, gray-haired and middleaged, and she will march out of the dressing-room in disgust...
...financial markets reflected the current situation in general business several months ago; the "discounting" performed by the stock market last fall is now quite clear to every one. The problem now before the securities markets consists of similarly forecasting what the situation will be next autumn. The present rate of industrial production has accelerated so swiftly that doubts are now beginning to be entertained in Wall Street as to the ability of this movement to endure. As a result, prices of shares on the Stock Exchange have proved irregular at high levels, with speculative reactions and rallies of only...
Better Times, when it gets through at the Hippodrome, is going to Paris. The props present a serious shipping problem...