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...producing the latest of some 40 Negro pictures it has made in 20 years. They are scripted, directed, edited and peddled by thickset, mild-mannered, chocolate-colored Producer Oscar Micheaux. Micheaux pictures take an average ten days to shoot, cost from $10,000 to $20,000. Casts are always allstar. "If I made one person the star," says foxy Producer Micheaux, "there would be no holding that person with a halter. I make them all stars." Though Oscar Micheaux has never made a picture in Hollywood, he has patiently built up a limited market for his Negro films. About...
...each season's end sports writers rate athletes by selecting allstar teams. The current issue of the U. S. Infantry Journal, in an article by George L. Simpson, lieutenant colonel of Field Artillery, presents an extraordinary slant on world military history by picking an allstar, alltime, all-nation army corps command. Selections...
Students of history and admirers of great men were thrown a bone of contention last week by the Independent (liberal weekly). Arguments raged over the Independent's selections for an "allstar all-American" Administration...
Western ways prevailed on a San Francisco gridiron as the allstar Eastern team lost loosely to Pacific players in the name of Christmas charity. To be sure, the triumph of Far Western football was slightly alloyed by the potent presence in their line-up of Joel Hunt from the Texas Aggies. Hunt scored a touchdown three minutes after the game began and stopped a punch on the jaw from Weinstock, Western Maryland tackle, just before it ended. Weinstock was ejected from the game. Between these Eastern mishaps the West scored another touchdown and a safety, the East one touchdown. Score...