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...submarine cables, about four-fifths of which are owned by private companies, the rest by Governments. The Eastern Telegraph and Cable Co. is the largest single owner. The British and French colonial systems require extensive cable facilities. The longest cable is 7,500 miles between San Francisco and Tokyo, via Hawaii and Guam. The construction and upkeep of cables is costly and difficult work. Frequent breaks require the services of specially equipped vessels for repairs...
John McGraw is troubled. The source of his distemper is the fact that there is only one Jewish ball player (Bohne of Cincinnati), to his knowledge, in the major leagues. McGraw craves a Semitic sensation around his Manhattan ballyard. He craves one to the extent of offering, publicly via a newspaper syndicate, $100,000 for a star Semite. He points out that " 50% of the fans are Jewish." These fans have seen many diamonds on their brethren and the inference is that, conversely, they would like to see many of the brethren on the diamonds...
...Love Piker. We don't know quite which is more tiresome? watching one of the 57 Hollywood varieties of "daughters'' go straight to the Nether Octopus of Shame, via the bathing-revel and flask-party route or seeing one of them won away from rouge, the Ritz and high-hattiness in general by kittens, tame canaries, rural atmosphere and the sight of a pair of baby-rompers. But The Love Piker temporarily swings the weight of ennui in the latter direction. Hope Warner (Anita Stewart) was a frightful snob. She broke the speed laws, owned a Pekinese, and when rescued...
...Pavloff, being a citizen of Russia, necessarily travels under a passport granted by its government, but he is personally an anti-Bolshevik and takes no part in politics. The French consul was more of a realist, and the professor will probably land at Cherbourg and go home, but not via Edinburgh. Britain, and not Pavloff, will be the loser. Commenting on his trying experiences, Dr. Pavloff said he was going back to Russia, where there is "law and order...
General Sir Alexander Godley, Commander-in-chief of the British Army on the Rhine: "Traveling from Cologne to London via Belgium, I was routed out of my compartment at night and left standing in my pajamas for an hour, while customs officials went through my baggage. We think the Belgians were looking for a report on the Ruhr which I was supposed to be carrying...