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...company at the time a pool was trying to push the stock. The new ruler of 2,430 stores in five countries started in the Woolworth Poughkeepsie store as a small boy, formed the British subsidiary in 1908. He is especially gifted in merchandising (Mr. Parson's talent was financial), has been in charge of the new 20? department since it was started in March...
Famous all over the East as a tried and unbeaten college ball team, the Rhode Island State outfit should put on a good show of its talent on the Soldiers Field diamond at 3 o'clock today. The visitors have piled up ten consecutive victories this season and are facing a Harvard team which has plenty of worries already. The Crimson has lost games at unexpected moments, such as the upset at Brown on Monday, and the Holy Cross and Georgetown defeats some time ago, and has a stiff return match with the Crusaders scheduled for Saturday...
...present offering of the University theater affords opportunity for pertinent comment on the state of acting in the American cinema. In both movies star players are featured, who cannot under any condition be classed as actors; they do not exercise any dramatic talent, for they possess none. Their whole efforts are centered upon walking impressively back and forth across the screen in parts which have been selected especially for them, parts which they can act because sympathetic to their own nature. Both stories are of back origin, both leading characters are but puppets, and if one movie is less...
...Shopworn," selected primarily for the limited talent of Barbara Stanwyck has the dubious honor of being the most badly photographed combination of miscast players, stupid lines and rehashed settings that this reviewer has seen in many a day. The plot doubtless plagiarized from Horatio Alger tells how persistence can overcome maternal jealousy and bring the loving couple together. Honors go to Clara Blandick and to Zazu Pitts for rather neat handling of character parts; but as for Regis Toomey in his first lead, and Barbara Stanwyck in what certainly should be her last,-all that can be said is that...
...Pierre strikes her down. Returning to Leah, Pierre is arrested on her steps. Hazel is dead, and Pierre, wanted by many women, is now wanted by the Law. The Author. A white-haired boy to his publishers (his Early Autumn received the 1926 Pulitzer Prize) Author Bromfield's talent and reputation have flourished like a green bay tree, of which some others would like to share the fruits. To get a "better perspective" of his native U. S. A., he lives mostly in France (he is there, at Senlis. now). A reputed $100,000 cinema contract lured...