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...mishaps. The cinema has since mastered other and more subtle methods of achieving funny effects and a Hollywood director might have thought twice before resorting to the simple old pursuit device as Director Rene Clair (Sous Les Toits de Paris) does in Le Million. As in comic opera, with swift pictorial action and amusing musical interludes, Le Million depicts its hero's vicissitudes. The hero wins a fortune in a lottery but he has left the lottery ticket in the pocket of an old coat. He has left the coat in his sweetheart's room. She gives...
...great Wall Street novel is Customers' Man by Boyden Sparkes, published last week by Frederick A. Stokes Co. ($1.50). But in swift-moving, unadorned narrative style it sets forth a good portrait of a Customers' Man of the Coolidge era. Before publication, the Board of Governors of the New York Stock Exchange had pamphlet copies privately printed for their own reading. To them the subject is especially interesting, for since the Crash of 1929 the Exchange has done much to lessen the evils of which Mr. Sparkes writes. Customers' Man Robert Loomis had a pleasing personality...
...Personal Accounting and Finance" which trains them to care for their money. Then Antioch sends them out into business. If after two weeks' trial it suits them, they must remain in the job a year. Many a big firm takes in Antioch students-Macy's, Marshall Field, Swift, Dennison Manufacturing Co., International Harvester, Detroit Edison, Cadillac, Ford, National City Bank, General Electric, Westinghouse, as well as local firms in Springfield and Dayton, Ohio. Though it is too soon to point to any nation famed Antioch graduates, Antioch finds its alumni on the whole sticking to the trades they...
...music, the chorus did outstandingly well. Singing with enthusiasm which nevertheless was confined to tonal and not physical motions, the chorus interpreted the ringing operettas with much success, while Dr. Davison lent his hand with the accompaniments to trace the motivating harmonies and to follow neatly the swift running passages...
...After swift tours of inspection to the French and British front, General Pershing settled down to the arduous preliminaries of creating a U. S. fighting force which he was confident would deliver the "decisive blow" to Germany in 1919. Question No. 1! where would the A. E. F. take its place in the line? Selected, after long conferences, was a sector east of Verdun in Lorraine. Question No. 2: how would this sector, eventually to hold 1,000,000 men, be supplied from the rear? In answer General Pershing began to map out a Service of Supply which stretched from...