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...Louisiana will not be an exhibitor at Chicago's "Century of Progress" Fair this summer was last week explained to an Alexandria, La. audience by Arch Johnson of the World's Fair staff, as follows...
...great hall adjacent to this place of judgment, however, that the gloomy and darkling splendour of the palace really displayed itself. Here massy pillars of stone supported the great arch of the roof, decorated in the Roman fashion which Vitruvius has taught us so well to admire. Below the glory of this reticulated ceiling, effulgent with the light of a thousand candles, lived and worked the other unfortunate inmates of the vast and awe-inspiring edifice. Unfortunate they were indeed to be called, for not one of them who appeared smiling and joyous but wore his smile as a mask...
Press Support. The Press furnished Secretary Woodin with a valuable second line of support. Newshawks were captivated by his informality, his thinking-out-loud. To bank depositors everywhere he was depicted as a warm, sympathetic human being slaving nobly in their interest. For the arch-Republican New York Sun George Van Slyke reported: "Under Mellon and Mills the Treasury has been a cold storage plant. . . . The new secretary has been at ease, quite natural and simple, utterly free of official pomp and pose and has made a tremendous hit with everybody." Well aware of how the country was taking...
...trace of quiet amusement at the part she is playing, should please. Hugh O'Connell, the droll one who cracked Indian nuts throughout Once in a Lifetime, demonstrates first-rate ability in a part more serious for him than usual. Forsaking All Others (by Edward Roberts & Frank Cavett; Arch Selwyn, producer). It took four directors, a reformed magician and a heavy-lidded lady who is a Congressman's daughter and a Senator's niece to get this lush comedy in production...
...week, young Marshal Chang and famed Chinese Finance Minister T. V. Soong who is now "Acting Premier" made the unprecedented move (for Chinese statesmen) of venturing into the threatened province, Jehol. Bumping out from Peiping, risking a Japanese bombing raid on their way, they entered Chengteh through a triumphal arch provided by War Lord Tang...