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...This she attempts to do, in the case of a British aristocrat and his son, who falls in love with her. She is hindered by the ministrations of a Chinese detective, who loves her also but does not permit affection to interfere with professional obligations. The picture, lacking the thickly gruesome atmosphere contrived by Author Sax Rohmer, is further handicapped by poor dialog and ineffective acting; the blood that is spilled in it seems scarcely as thick as water. Ablest members of the cast are the orientals-Anna May Wong and Sessue Hayakawa, who has not made a picture...
Contrary to legend, bowstrings give out a hard, flat sound, not a twang; arrows hiss rather than whistle in their flight. The loudest sound on an archery range is the thump of arrows when they reach the thick straw target. Into the gold bull's-eye of the 48-in. target at Canandaigua last week the arrows loosed by a lanky toxophilite from Coldwater, Mich., thumped most consistently. He, Russell Hoogerhyde, won the men's championship for the second time in succession, maintained a record of winning every tournament he has entered. His score...
...Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. by one of the bitterest and most expensive lawsuits in history, the whole nation looked on and Cyrus Eaton stood at the height of his fame. But it proved a Pyrrhic victory, which left the conqueror too weak to continue the fight. Reverses came thick and fast. In April, Continental Shares, Inc. announced the retirement of Mr. Eaton from its chairmanship and the severance of its connection with Otis & Co. (TIME, May 4, 1931). The same week, expansive E. A. Pierce & Co. took over the commission business of Otis, and with a wholesale resignation of partners...
...wretched houses stare poker-faced at nothing in the dark, fetid street there is still a strong sense of the hot, swart, teeming Italians inside. In the winter, 107th Street is piled with refuse and dirty snow. In the summer the sun beats down until it bubbles the tar. Thick, bad odors cling in the crannies, clutch at the passerby...
...London, the Hoover Moratorium committee of experts, almost forgotten by newshawks, met and immediately adjourned. There was nothing for them to do while Europe's statesmen remained cloistered in Paris. Just what was happening in Paris reporters did not learn, though the air was thick with rosy generalities...