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...Hollywood opulence. He bought the original manuscript, gave it to Scenarist Robert Riskin to rework, devised one of the most magnificent sets in cinema history. He had the good judgment to leave the story almost exactly as it was written and the skill to match Author Hilton's verbal talent with pictorial subtlety. After this week's opening, most critics held Lost Horizon as fine a cinema as it is a book. Its one flaw is Director Capra's one major deviation from the novel-a happy ending...
With the Boylston and Lee Wade speaking competition once again getting under way, the inadequacy of these prizes in stimulating and rewarding a genuine interest in public speaking becomes painfully apparent. For a contest that requires a mere verbal recitation of long memory passages hardly fits into the present day oratorical picture, when speakers and would-be speakers are most interested in developing their own ability to organize material and deliver it more or less extemporaneously. Clearly some change that would give value to the competition as an exercise in public speaking instead of a recital of other people...
...tight-lipped replies this week, India Office civil servants officially denied that the Durbar announcement had "political significance." They officially admitted that Sir Alexander Hardinge was "sent to India in connection with the Durbar arrangements." Presently they produced a printed document superseding the previous official but verbal announcement in terms of the Queen-Empress' health. The original verbal announcement was not denied, but the later printed announcement reads for posterity : "His Majesty the King-Emperor finds the duties and responsibilities which he has undertaken in unexpected circumstances unfortunately make it impossible for him to contemplate a prolonged absence from...
...highest official quarters the pact of Eagle & Lion was said to have been supplemented by a verbal "gentlemen's understanding," not strictly binding, but to the effect that London and Rome anticipate: 1) cessation by the extremely powerful Italian radio station at Bari of its anti-British broadcasts in the languages of the Near East; 2) disintegration of the British ''Mediterranean accords" with France, Yugoslavia. Turkey and Greece, made at the time of Sanctions and considered by II Duce as menacing Italy; 3) easy going by Italy from now on in the Spanish Civil War, and even...
...shuttled around in various private holding companies with assistance of various parties, most of 'whom also subsequently jumped into the legal fray. Daugherty started his particular lawsuits in 1924, dragging them on with no success for ten years until he suddenly established, on the basis of his original verbal agreement, his partnership rights. If that victory was upheld on appeal, which will be heard this week, Daugherty would get the entire kitty...