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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vessels. Because yachtsmen and amateur motorboat men . . . are law-abiding citizens, yachts and motorboats used solely for pleasure . . . will not ordinarily be stopped . . . unless suspicious circumstances warrant such action. . . . No person is safe to be entrusted with the navigation of any vessel who does not occasionally take a glance around the horizon. Such a proper lookout will disclose . . . any Coast Guard boat . . . signaling you to stop. The Coast Guard boat will use her whistle or horn or a megaphone or visual signals ... to attract your attention. ... It may be necessary for the Coast Guard craft to fire a blank warning...
...Rainbow Man (Sono-Art). A new, independent producing company has probably fulfilled its intention of building a box-office success on the Jazz Singer formula around Minstrel Eddie Dowling. When Dowling's pal, an acrobat, is dying after a fall from a trapeze, he promises to take care of the acrobat's little boy and keeps his promise through some amusing and a number of saccharine episodes, a love affair, and recurrent Irish-tenor melodies. Best shot: the audience in the Arcadia Opera House. Best song: "Sleepy Valley...
...with violating the 18th Amendment in her night club. She did not take the stand. Her witnesses insisted that she was only a night club employe, no proprietor. Said the prosecuting attorney in his summation: "She has conducted herself like a lady in court. There has been no wisecracking around here. But this woman, with her God-given talents, has sold her birthright for a mess of pottage." The jury refused to convict her. The Duke Steps Out (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Nonsense about a young student in a California co-educational university who wins the world's light-heavyweight...
...Croydon field. It was remodeled and enlarged just a year ago. Now it must be altered again at great cost. Airport ideas presented at Manhattan included underground passages to holes where planes would be waiting ready to start, great landing platforms over steamship piers, and a community arrangement around a circular field, its buildings rising in height as they recede from the centre. Next month at Cleveland, engineers will meet with architects, city planners, and flyers in an attempt to design best types of airports for various services. Lack of ports, like lack of trained flyers, is hampering...
...sudden rise to publicity of Victim and Victor caught the book trade unaware. Clerks went scurrying around looking under counters to see if they had any in stock. The novel was published last December by the Religious Book Department of Macmillan Co. It was reviewed in due course. Here and there a big-time reviewer was favorable but there was no concerted beating of the tomtoms such as heralds a volume bound for success of esteem and money...