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...last 41 contests, earned a mythical No. i rating in the East. Fortnight ago it throttled. 41-to-26, the University of California, which by next week will have junketed 6,000 miles to display its talent. Purdue had an equally good record. Winner of three Big Ten championships since 1930, co-champion last year, this year's quintet had also toppled California, trounced Notre Dame. Added incentive to action was the announcement that, for the first time, the U. S. will pick an Olympic team to vie with Uruguayans, Bulgarians, Turks and other basketeers next summer. Best explanation...
...will never know so much about Steel's finances as the fabulous Mr. Filbert. Yet he is apparently being groomed to succeed Chairman Myron Taylor. And Mr. Taylor, like his predecessor, is not a steel man but a lawyer. The Steel Corp.'s prime requirement is executive talent. If pure essence of executive potency can move brontosaurian Steel Corp., Edward Riley Stettinius will surely move...
...crowded to the doors and Tristan und Isolde became the season's bestseller. Question on every side was where such a singer had been keeping herself. Answer was that for 20 years she had had an uneventful career in Norway, singing at the Oslo Opera house where her talent was taken for granted...
...blue. Yet some laymen could marvel at her voice, at her poise, at her endurance and still wish at times that she possessed more fire, a more heroic conception of Wagner's great heroines. To some she seems curiously impersonal, a cold Northern light withal her great talent...
Millions in the Air (Paramount) is another picture about radio amateur hours. In it the girl (Wendy Barrie) is a rich soap-maker's daughter who attempts the amateur hour to convince people she has talent as a singer. The boy (John Howard) is an ice cream vendor who successfully sings a duet with her but bridles when he learns her identity. The tedium of this is relieved by a small, able, comely tap dancer named Eleanore Whitney, Dave Chasen as a one-man band, and Willie Howard, whose great ambition is to sing "La Donna è mobile...