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England's changing fortunes, a slice of history, are shown in terms of one family's sacrifice and loss in "Cavalcade," playing now at the Majestic. Taken from the play by Noel Coward, "Cavalcade" has been fashioned into what is not only the master work of the Fox Film Corporation, but a picture that must be regarded as the greatest achievement of the talking pictures to date...
...meals; living in poor lodgings; mortgaging his future by borrowing money; combining with others in buying books, or buying none at all. "There are too many men," said Dean Rivenburg. "who are trying to live from week to week. They have a pint of milk and a slice of bread for breakfast and one meal...
...right that the support of war veterans and dependents whose condition is actually the result of war service, and not of post war accident, should continue. The League's aim is to stop the mass of payments now being made to numbers of men who, eager to obtain a slice of the governmental melon, have carved out a nitch for themselves that is entirely without justification...
...users of steel are big sources of scrap. Railroads, buildings, old automobiles supply immense quantities. Old rails, cars, locomotives, machinery, pipes, automobiles pour into the big scrap yards to be cut or broken up, carefully sorted. Giant shears leisurely chomp a steel freight car into bits. Oxyacetylene torches slice up rail's, girders, beams. "Skull-crackers" shatter cumbersome castings. Twisted sheets and waste are bundled by hydraulic presses. Great electric magnets on overhead cranes pile the fragments into heaps or load them in gondola cars for the blast furnaces...
...conveyor. Head down, tongue out, tail hanging down his back, squealing in terror, he is carried along until a husky man with a spear-like knife makes the deft throat-cutting thrust which kills him. Then an intricate web of knives scrapes off his hair, Government inspectors slice his neck glands to look for signs of tuberculosis. A knife cleaves off his head. Another knife sweeps his insides as clean as his skin. A twist of tweezers and his toenails go clattering to the floor. A bath of fire removes the last shred of hair. A cleaver drops and rends...