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Superbly played, this saucy fairy tale by Preston Sturges is continuously gay. It is the season's first smash-hit, by a margin of one night over Rope's End (see below...
FRANCIS JURASCHEK President Freystadt-Juraschek, Inc. New York City Sirs: By all means let's have one magazine with full sails and a taut sheet-rope. THE SOUTHWICK Co. New York City Sirs: It takes some courage to limit the size of your publication. CLARENCE R. LINDNER San Francisco Examiner San Francisco, Cal. Sirs: It takes considerable courage, I imagine, to take such a stand, but as a reader and advertiser appreciate your policy and hope you will benefit by it. W. S. BASINGER Passenger Traffic Mgr. Union Pacific System Omaha, Neb. Sirs: In the opinion of Mr. Lillibridge...
...compass were shows last week at Syracuse, N. Y. and Toronto. At Syracuse, Aaron Kranz performed a feat which with less other air news would have brought great newspaper headlines. When an exhaust pipe of an endurance plane cracked, he went up in another plane, climbed down a rope ladder to the first, made repairs, then dropped to earth by parachute...
...repentance and new-found "religion." Greatest secrecy surrounded the execution. Newsmen were barred under threats of contempt of court. Guardsmen, pale in the pale dawn light, ringed the hangar as Alderman mounted the scaffold. A singing sea breeze through the shed swayed his body at the end of a rope as justice was done for all good U. S. people...
Stowaway. A would-be stowaway, remained behind in the Lakehurst guardhouse. He, one Morris Roth, 18, plumber's helper, of Trenton, N. J., was caught crawling along a high girder in the Lakehurst hangar. He had a 175-ft. rope with him and had planned to slide down it to the top of the Graf Zeppelin. The covering of the airship is of fabric. He might have broken through and caused disaster when she was in the air. The stowaway who crossed from Germany to the U. S., one Albert Buschko, 19, Dusseldorf baker's apprentice, was sent home...