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...feature film at the Metropolitan this week is adapted from this very good book and made into a very much worse movie. In fact the above mentioned author must have experienced much the same loss of faith as the chicken which hatched a duck egg, when he first beheld his motion picture child. In short the picture is just another of those periodic and unpleasantly intimate glimpses of crime, courtrooms and cops. A totally likable, but thoroughgoing scoundrel in the book is made into an unconscious crook in the screen version. The crowning movie touch, however, was a lurking dictaphone...
After which quaint reference by Banker James Speyer to a national custom which it is the Treasury Department's function to enforce, Secretary Andrew Mellon heard his signal services to the country acclaimed, and beheld his likeness, brushed in oils by fashionable Painter Philip de Laszlo (who lately painted President and Mrs. Coolidge), presented to the New York Chamber of Commerce, to hang in company with those of his predecessors-including great Alexander Hamilton, clever Albert Gallatin, honest John Sherman. Mr. Speyer spoke in Manhattan, in behalf of 500 Chambermen subscribers to a Mellon portrait fund...
...Beam's. Manhattan beheld the unusual conflict of two plays by the same author opening on the same night last week. The playwright is C. K. Munro,* of England, and his second comedy was Beau-Strings, discussed below. At Mrs. Beam's was done by the Theatre Guild in their best manner, evoked delight from the critics and from those who pay to be amused...
Spaniards. Rangoon, Burma; then Bangkok, Siam; then Saigon and Hanoi, French Indo-China, strained their eyes in turn, and in turn beheld Captains Loriga and Gonzalez-Gallarza who had come all the way from their native Spain on a hopping-trip from Madrid in two planes. They were to keep hopping until they reached Manila in the Philippines. They received word that in crossing Japan the military authorities would not allow them to land on the Island of Formosa. But Japan's warning proved unnecessary. Landing at Macao, Asiatic Portugal, one flyer struck a tree; his comrade's plane...
Explanations abound, correcting many a roseate popular illusion, alleviating the author's feelings and his passion for unvarnished verity. They are mostly revelations of people, beheld in their reactions to McDougall or his cartoons of them. J. P. Morgan Sr. was small-minded about his big nose; Rudyard Kipling, rude; Tom Nast, vain and petty; Mark Twain, grumpily grudging; Thomas Wanamaker, "a nasty little commercial person"; Woodrow Wilson, "a sort of swift floor-walker's smirk"; Joseph Pulitzer, a social climber, ingenious blasphemer ? for instance, the epithet, "too inde-god-dam-pendent...