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...tobacco shortage imminent? From the rich, leaf-growing lands of the south, a thick smoke screen, pungent with reports of short crop and runaway prices, swirled up around the tobacco industry last week. Over the radio, cigaret programs vaguely hinted at a shrinking supply. Newspaper ads pleaded for patience if favorite brands were temporarily exhausted. To ration-wise citizens, all this spelled shortage. But what was behind the smoke...
Attacking the problem scientifically, the clinic uses the following method of increasing reading ability: a paragraph of material is shown on the screen. Then it is repeated in short flashes of word-groupings, until the paragraph has been seen, not in its entirety, but as a collection of word-groupings...
...that is seen by the normal reader, the Clinic sometimes asks what author the phrase "Washout at Irving" would represent, and most people attribute it to the originator of Ichabod Crane. Likewise, "Palcum towder," and Cixxcixati," would all probably be indistinguished from the real words, if flashed on the screen quickly...
...This is the Army," screen translation of Irving Berlin's all-soldier stage musical, continues for its second week. The screen version offers some elaboration over the stage hit, having in addition to the original cast of 300 soldiers, many stage and screen stars. The songs are tops...
...been carried to a point where the picture certainly is milder than the swarms of commando picture blurbs. Beyond these limitations the book has been faithfully reproduced so that it can be truthfully said that the faults of the picture are the faults of the book as a screen play...