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Editor Mayer stated that he wished to purchase Panorama and continue publishing it. He said that his offer of a "large sum of money" had been refused, that the cost of the venture had been $63,000. He sketched briefly the history of Panorama; it opened at 25?? a copy in October, dropped to 15¢ in November. Advertising rates picked up slowly. Its circulation was 7,000 at the close. Said Editor Mayer: "Panorama is not yet dead...
...Night of Mystery. Those who knew Adolphe Menjou when he was a waiter in a Cleveland chop house were not surprised when the movies "discovered" him. He was the suavest man that ever picked up a 25?? tip. His way of wearing a cigaret or a dress suit brought him almost instant cinema fame. Two years ago, his entertainment was impeccable. Since then his expression has taken on a tired, wooden, what-does-it-matter manner. In his latest film, A Night of Mystery, adapted from Victorien Sardou's Ferreol, he puts on the silken cloak of a gallant French...
...Stinson plane by leaving an oil heater in the hangar all night. The thermometer was at 50 below 0. Buckets of hot oil poured into the motor next morning sped the getaway. With an offshore wind under tail, Captain Wilkins and his pilot, hardbitten Carl Ben Eielson, steered 25?? west of north, and vanished out over the Arctic Ocean. The plan was to fly thus for six hours, then turn southwest, fly two hours, then turn back to Point Barrow. The territory thus circumscribed, 50,000 square miles lying polewards of Wrangel and Whitney islands had never been viewed...
...questions"?he qualified this by excepting questions on politics. Then for the first time in history the Crown Prince of Sweden was interviewed. Yes, he had been called an archeologist. No, he was not a criminologist. He had done some carpentry as a boy, but was not worth 25?? a day as a carpenter. No, he had never played poker.' He had not taken a drink in 15 years. He danced, but did not enjoy it much. He did not play the accordion or any instrument, except the concertina...
...more milk taken, the greater drain on her vitality. Good milkers get their carfares paid. This milk is set in copiers and later each day is distributed to hospitals and individual mothers. The impoverished can get it free. Other private patients and hospitals pay 15¢ to 25?? an ounce. Last year the Federation paid out $7,000 for the 1860 quarts of milk produced, or $3.70 a quart** The cost for handling an ounce was 23¢. There was no profit...