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...pipe, cigarets, candy, soap, mystery books. They found him well fed ("bloated" was his word), having received Red Cross parcels and cheese, butter and jam from Denmark. He had "a sort of private room" in a house at one end of the camp where he was writing a serial for the Saturday Evening Post which he has tentatively titled Money in the Bank. His main worry was that he had not paid his U.S. income taxes. When he was told that Ernest Hemingway had a new book out about the Spanish Civil War, he observed scornfully...
...patriotic Pearl White, this man-sized stunt was not even a good day's work. Rough-riding heroine of The Perils of Pauline, The Exploits of Elaine, other serial thrillers of the youthful U.S. cinema industry, she had weathered a thousand terrible fates. With daredevil Ruth Roland (Ruth of the Rockies, Love and the Law, etc.) she was co-queen of the U.S. sequel-cinema in the days when To Be Continued Next Week left an agonizing seven-day gap in the lives of thousands of silent-serial fans...
...less loyal than their forebears are today's cliffhanger fans. Most of them are U.S. school children, who demand of their heroes the same forthright Boy Scout qualities that ennobled the silent heroes of the serial's palmy days (1913-16): men who do not drink or smoke, fight only in self-defense or to prevent premeditated crime, always rescue heroines in time's nick...
...since Pearl White's day has Hollywood produced another serial queen of her stature. The fans wanted sterner stuff than even Miss White could appropriately offer. But this week Republic was ready to offer another, 1941-style. She is beauteous Frances Gifford, a 22-year-old, blue-eyed brunette, somewhat scratched and bruised from two months of grappling with pythons, scrambling off sacrificial altars, evading avalanches and poison arrows for the 31-reel thriller Jungle Girl...
Designed to serve as a complete introductory guide to the study of map and serial photograph reading, the course will progress from work on scales, projections and contour lines to field sketching and stereoptical study. Erwin Raisz, instructor in Geographical Exploration, will give the course, for which applications should be made at the Institute on 2 Divinity Avenue...