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...camera and makes the transitions less of a tour de force. The face of the handsome young British sawbones becomes by barely perceptible degrees of trick photography the visage of a sabre-toothed baboon with pig eyes and a tassel of primeval hair. The story?most macabre product of the queer brain of Robert Louis Stevenson, sometimes politely sentimental, sometimes insanely, savagely gloomy? goes much as usual, with Hollywood variations. Mr. Hyde pursues a music hall girl (Miriam Hopkins) and brutally mistreats her while Dr. Jekyll makes intermittent and respectable love to the daughter (Rose Hobart) of a bigwig...
...question whether college editors are publicity seekers. We doubt whether more than an insignificant number of undergraduate editors in the United States are interested in personal publicity of the type which has been the unfortunate by-product of Spectator's interest in the intercollegiate football situation. The efforts of Spectator and other college newspapers to keep the names of their editors and editorial writers from the professional press furnish ample evidence that the alleged interest in publicity is a fiction conceived by critics desiring to discredit honest efforts to bring about improvement in the university world. It is time that...
...Thee I Sing is the drollest, merriest musical nonsensity to come down the theatrical pike this season. There is good reason for it to be. The book is a product of wry George S. Kaufman (Once in a Lifetime }. The music, which rises at times to the antiphonal absurdity which he first provided for Strike Up the Band, is by gifted George Gershwin. Brother Ira, who with Brother George recently made an excursion into the cinema (see p. 19), has packed the lyrics full of foolishness and funny rhymes. Handsome William Gaxton and Lois Moran of the films, looking...
...Beech-Nut Gum advertisement on the back cover was paid for, might well have been guessed by the casual reader. It showed the caricature of a Negro girl alongside the gum-slogan: "Makes the next smoke taste better." Other paid advertisements in the issue, more disrespectful to the product and much funnier, are harder to identify...
...Consolidated Co. of Baltimore. In the 15 years which followed Banker Aldred & partners watched the growing industrial life of the district, quietly bought up the property around Safe Harbor, gained control of Consolidated Co. Most important item for any hydro-electric development is a good market for its product. Expensive to build, big power dams must be able to sell electricity readily or their overhead charges eat up all profit. Safe Harbor dam was not begun until its sponsors foresaw the electrification of the Pennsylvania Railroad from New York to Washington. Last week Aldred & Co. were able to announce...