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Although Shipmates may not enhance his reputation, Robert Montgomery is almost certain to earn more startling remuneration than the $10,000 bonus which he received after playing with Norma Shearer in Strangers May Kiss. His qualifications, personal rather than technical, are partly the result of a respectable upbringing in Beacon, N. Y., partly of a long neck which causes his head to incline in a quizzical fashion. His eyes have the kind of crinkle that shopgirls call "cute." When his father, who was a vice president of New York Rubber Co. died, Robert Montgomery left Pawling School where...
...Beacon lights...
Married. Ira Clifton Copley, 66, publisher of Aurora (Ill.) Beacon News, Elgin (Ill.) Courier, Joliet (Ill.) Herald News, Illinois State Journal, San Diego Union and Tribune, onetime (1911-23) Illinois Congressman; and Mrs. Chloe Davidson Worley of Pasadena, Calif.; at Paris, France. Mr. Copley, whose first wife died, and bride began honeymooning on his yacht Happy Days...
...emphasize the utilitarian aspects of education which a mass electorate immediately recognizes. In the East the experiments, including the house plan, at the great universities, have held the spotlight of public attention. But the work of the smaller colleges which, as President Lowell says of Haverford, have been beacon lights on the road, sometimes go unnoticed. We forget that Harvard and Yale and Princeton made their national fame and established their enduring glory when they were no larger than Haverford today...
...strange new beam of light appeared in place of an old one which had vanished. The new one: an advertising searchlight designed by one Alfred Gauthier, to etch letters and legends in the sky even when there are no clouds to provide a background. The old one: the revolving beacon atop Hotel St. George in Brooklyn, erected three years ago by Sperry Gyroscope Co. to guide aviators and to advertise the hotel. Recently the Department of Commerce ruled that only beacons actually on an established airway might use white lights; all others must be red. The hotel placed...