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...glassed ceiling. Congressmen guffawed wildly, stamped their feet in derision, mockingly applauded. The juxtaposition of the words "Senate" and "business" even brought a smile to the bland face of Speaker Nicholas Longworth as he sat in his high presiding chair with the ornate mace of office fastened to the wall at his right. It was a fine professional joke...
...while suspicion falls on Mr. Farnum's daughter (by an earlier marriage), but this pretty thing is no more a murderess than she seems. When the case has been solved, you are left with two striking thoughts: 1) A convenient and unusual thing to have behind the false wall of a private vault is the boudoir of your mistress; 2) very mysterious shooting may be accomplished by planning to have the bullets, instead of striking directly, bounce off some such household object as a chandelier, umbrella stand or commode. Playwright Hugh Stanislaus Stange's thriller will appeal...
...when the steam engine was a new invention is compared with the achievements of modern industry by the general use of electricity. Comparison is made between our water power resources and our coal deposits, and it shows that there is enough coal used yearly to build a Chinese Wall entirely around the United States. Animated drawings demonstrate the operation of a steam turbine and the generation of alternating current. The story ends with the construction of a modern electric power plant and a glance into the future of the electric power industry...
...days chum; and when he goes to make an important speech in the shires he sleeps in the bedroom which was the headquarters of his early dream-world. He dreams; his beloved Sally is there as always. In the morning he finds his "beauteous maiden" seated on the garden wall, so romantically like the dream that he renounces his career, and the high likelihood of the Prime Minister's portfolio, resolved at last to grasp the romance which his youth promised. He returns to London to bring his affairs to a close, and the reader may guess whether success closes...
...Wall Street (Columbia). Spectators who wonder whether the timeliness of this film's background?a stockmarket panic?is the result of extraordinary financial foresight or extraordinary speed in production should be informed that it is simply luck. In plot and characters Wall Street is less lucky. It presents the fundamentally interesting but familiar and clumsily treated situation of an iron-sinewed, low-born trader who is in love with a beautiful, cultured woman. Ralph Ince and Aileen Pringle do as well as they can in these parts. Silliest shot: a ruined speculator committing suicide by jumping through an office window...