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...Singed (Blanche Sweet). With her wealth, a dancing girl sets a bum up in the oil business. They both become millionaires, whereupon the man (Warner Baxter) comes down with acute social aspiration. San Francisco society, however, will never accept him as long as he associates with "that infamous Mrs. Wall." In the end he overcomes the society influenza and marries the woman, who certainly did right by him. Although film followers will recall that Blanche Sweet belongs to an early cinema epoch, she shows no signs of weakening...
Officials of the Equitable Trust Co., Manhattan, having learned the health value of special window glasses that permit the passage of ultraviolet sun light (TIME, Oct. 18, Nov. 1), ordered 18 stories of their new bank building now going up at Broad & Wall Streets, Manhattan, glazed throughout with this glass...
...Portrait of an Old Man" which Peter Paul Rubens painted some 300 years ago, a patrician subject whose disdainful brow, thin smile and scornfully intelligent eye must have been a relief to the painter after his usual run of exuberantly plump females and amorous burlies. On the west wall of the same room would be a large canvas by Rubens' sensitive pupil, Anthony van Dyck, showing the Marchesa Lommelini, a 17th Century Genoese beauty, and her two infants, piously gowned, posed beside a statuette of Christ...
...Soon after we moved here, I took off the dirty old wall paper from the kitchen-several layers of it-and found, underneath, pictures of all sorts of birds. Some of the birds I recognized and some I had never seen. They were right pretty...
...little later I got tired of the paint and put on green wall paper. Those birds have flown away for good, I guess...