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Riding the crest of a wave of photographic fervor that carried with it the formation of the Harvard Film Society to present epoch-making pictures, Widener Memorial Library yesterday received from Adolph Zukor, of Paramount fame, a gift of 500 prints from motion pictures he has made...
...career of August Adolph Gennerich, born in 1886 in Yorkville, Manhattan's German district, had not up to that time been entirely undistinguished. At the early age of 22 he had found an occupation that admirably suited him, a job as a New York City policeman. On the force he was by turns athlete, motorcycle patrolman, hero. He was cited three times for bravery, once for capturing a earful of bandits who peppered him for a mile and a half with a machine gun until their car overturned. He was also a member of the bomb squad...
Less impressive than Middleton's recitative were: a Scottish Suite by Adolph Deutsch, Whiteman's short, bespectacled chief arranger; the now familiar cacophonies of Ferde Grofé's Tabloid; Deutsch's Essay on Waltzes wherein the hybrid orchestra pieced together remnants of Beethoven, Gounod, Delibes, Tchaikovsky, George Evans, Chopin, Franz Lehar, Oscar Strauss and Johann Strauss. A blues clarinetist leaped into a long, screaming, upward run; Roy Bargy followed with incredibly nimble piano work and splashed hot chords into the Rhapsody in Blue. Beaming, Paul Whiteman about-faced, took many bows, and the All-American jazz...
Last May, when the purple path of Congressman Adolph Joseph Sabath's committee investigating bondholders' reorganizations led to Philadelphia for a second time, Philadelphia Co. investors packed the Federal Building to hear what the Philadelphia Inquirer called "one of the most sensational exposes of alleged practices in Philadelphia's top-rank financial world within memory of the present generation." When the Sabath committee scored, the investors cheered. When the sweating bankers offered explanations, they booed and waved empty pocketbooks. Sample revelations...
...produced. In it, Mr. Ruggles is determined to be as wicked as possible so as to satisfy his wife, who has made up her mind that she is losing something from life. This all sounds a trifle complicated, and Miss Boland gets "that way" after listening to Adolph Menjou, the author of "Marriage, the Living Death". All in all the hill is worthy of recommendation for all who find Cambridge a grim place these days...