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...Viking. Although the odd, no-colored daylight of the camera suggests, by the contrast of shadows, all colors, producers have always been dissatisfied with this virtue of their medium just as with the swift possibilities of its silence. Past experiments with color have been unsatisfactory principally because colors did not reproduce exactly; in this tinted drama involving an English slave and a Viking Princess, the old trouble continues -blue is not blue, brown not brown. Melodramatic episodes of Norse swordplay, and voyaging ships give an old-fashioned atmosphere to a story that could not have been exciting even...
...youngest, Prince John, died in 1919 at the age of 14. The youngest who still lives, Prince George, a lieutenant on H. M. S. Durban, was reported from Bermuda to have received orders to dash for London, transferring in mid-ocean from the frail destroyer Durban to a swift and sturdier liner. Only the Duke of York, second son of His Majesty, was at the Royal bedside. The Duke of Gloucester and Edward of Wales-imminent King and Emperor-were on their "good will tour" (TIME. Sept. 17) of British Africa. Probably because of the vast distance between them...
...theme is familiar. Gladys, a chorus girl, wants a man with money. She finds soon enough dollars are not as nice as Neil Hamilton's square jaw and swift right job to an opponent's proboscis. She gets him in three episodes...
...School according to enrollment figures made public this morning is a rapid process. During the last six years Law School classes have lost an average of thirty six percent of their membership during the first year. That the selective means employed have been discriminating as well as swift is witnessed by the fact that second year mortality has averaged less than ten percent...
...Goodrich, wife of the tire tycoon, traveled last week from York Village, Me., to Phoenix, Ariz., in a Pullman. The cost: $3,900. The reason: Mrs. Goodrich, long and seriously ill, needed the care of a doctor, nurses, and her husband, the privacy of a single Pullman, a swift trip without stopover or change...