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Paris, March 6--France tonight announced a project for building a line battleship and two destroyers of moderate size, at a cost of $68,000,000, with another second line battleship planned...
...taken his plot from Author Harrison Griswold Dwight's Stamboul Nights. A Hollywood friend named H. C. Tracy had hacked out the libretto. But, at first, words were lost while the audience gaped in bewilderment at Frederick Kiesler's setting. The kiosk resembled the turret of a battleship topped by an old-fashioned lampshade. To suggest the garden a lighting arrangement projected on the backdrop a horizontal stem and four big embryonic leaves. A moon was suspended in the sky like a bruised alligator pear...
...Battleship Gertie (by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan; Courtney Burr, producer). Last season Producer Burr made a lot of money out of a naval farce called Sailor, Beware! (TIME, Oct. 9, 1933.) Battleship Gertie was supposed to be smuttier and funnier than Sailor, Beware...
...Harvard University is, at present, the scene of a struggle between Fascist and anti-Fascist forces. In the immediate past it has witnessed the much-heralded visit of Ernest Hanfstaengl, the offer of the so-called Dr. Hanfstaengl scholarship, and its refusal, the visit of the German battleship "Karlsruhe," the visit of the Italian Fascist students, and a number of Anti-Fascist demonstrations. Aside from outside influences, Fascism is being preached from within by large sections of the Alumni, and by reactionary elements of the student body, such as the Harvard CRIMSON. As you know, this Fascist offensive is part...
Thirty-six years ago the Duchess of York, five years married and four years a mother, went down to Blackwall on the Thames below London docks to launch the 12,500-ton battleship Albion. Plunging into the water the great mass of steel piled up such a backwave that it swamped a landing stage on which 200 men, women and children were crowded. Nearly all of them were flung into the Thames. Fifty were drowned...