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...ladies and ladylike gentlemen who read Vogue were disturbed to read in the May 24 issue of that famed semimonthly fashion chart the following appeal: "Constantly we have to face the problem presented by newspaper publishers, department stores and advertising art services who use or adapt Vogue cover designs, illustrations, decorations or other material and offer it to the public as their own without asking our permission. . . We are asking our readers to help us detect these flagrant violations of a fundamental and well-understood law. If you observe any Vogue cover design ... or other material reproduced in any magazine...
...grave condition of opera in Italy was the reason given recently by Composer Mascagni for endorsing sound films. He even suggested that his own next opera would be composed expressly for the cinema. Said he: "Composers must adapt themselves to the new conditions, as the talkies can be made a medium for educating the masses musically...
...inadequacy of the present legal code of the United States has been explained so often as to have become a common-place. In the midst of the tremendous progress made by such branches of society as commerce and science, the law been slow in adapting itself to new conditions. The Sherman Anti-Trust laws, to use a familiar illustration, are already hopelessly antiquated to deal with modern business. By nature of its bulk and intimate connection with the past, the legal code is usually one of the last phases of society to adapt itself to changing environment...
Getting Even is a play by Nathaniel Wilson who explained before its premiere that he was making an attempt to adapt to the stage the staccato methods and quick scene changes of cinema. How hopelessly he failed could be gathered from the rude hysteria of his first audience or the comment of Critic Percy Hammond (New York Herald Tribune) who predicted that the cast would be "celebrated in the future for having appeared in the world's worst play...
...Kolster was originally destined to be a musician. His family came to this country, indeed, because his father had been engaged to play a violin with the Boston Symphony. Young Kolster therefore soon had a violin handed to him. But his small hands did not well adapt themselves to the instrument and when to the violin was added a piano, Engineer Kolster, rebellious, entered the Cambridge Manual Training School where he "prepped" for Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While still attending M. I. T., he got a job as assistant to the Cambridge city engineer. Most of his time was spent...