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When The Big Drive was given a test run in Chicago last month it surprised cinema tradesmen by filling the McVicker's theatre for over two weeks. Hollywood producers, unable to comprehend that the cinema can be a medium for anything except drama, will be startled if. as is likely, The Big Drive repeats its success elsewhere. Producer Rule claims to have compiled his picture as peace propaganda of much the same brand as George Palmer Putnam's grisly collection of war photographs entitled The Horror of It (TIME, March...
Last year, in testing the new plan of awards, examinations were held at six preparatory schools and an award was made to Walter Stanley White '36, of Cambridge, a student at Phillips Exeter Academy, and now a Freshman here. On the basis of this test, plans are being prepared for a still wider application of the competition this year, and participation by a large number of schools is expected. Prize examinations in Latin and Greek will be prepared by the Department of Classics at Harvard and given at the various participating schools. Plans for the competition are in charge...
...Tsar Will Hays should be prepared to guess the outcome of this situation. Megan Davis tries to make a Christian out of General Yen when he is planning to murder a traitorous ex-mistress. He sneers at her attempts, assures her that Christianity is a mumbo-jumbo. To test Megan Davis's sincerity, he offers to accept her as a hostage for the loyalty of his ex-mistress. Miss Davis's Christian faith in the ex-mistress proves to be unjustified. So does her mistrust of General Yen. Having lost his province and his army in giving Miss...
...hastened to comment, "The situation in South Africa is most paradoxical, the result of an acute political situation. . . . There is some hope that South Africa will soon return to the gold standard. . . . Much will depend upon whether the Government is able to command a majority when Parliament meets." First test of strength was expected to come Jan. 14 at a caucus of the Transvaal Nationalist Party. If Judge Roos captures the caucus from Premier Hertzog, that may start a landslide sweeping the Judge into the Premiership...
...Rounded out his career this year by winning the most arduous, difficult and heartbreaking test in all athletic competition when he won the Olympic decathlon championship and established a new world's record...