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...remodelled cash register factory at Bound Brook, N. J. a moving picture company was started in 1910. It was named for Charles Pathe, French experimenter with kinetic shadows. Among the early U. S. picture companies Pathe became important and prosperous, famed for its comedies, its newsreels. Its symbol was a crowing cock. Into fame the Pathe rooster crowed Harold Lloyd, Pearl White. In 1927 Pathe was reorganized, began to make feature pictures successfully on a small scale. Its principal assets were a library of film stories said to be the best in the business, and the services of three brilliant...
Best new pantomine was the Victorian "Piq-Nique," illustrating a hoopskirted female terrified of spiders, fishing worms, the cold brook; awed by the imaginary male recumbent under an umbrella. In "Webs," an overintellectualized conception, Miss Enters struggled ineffectually with the jazz age, moved hysterically to a Symphony" potpourri of and Cesar "Papa Franck's Loves "D Mama," Minor ended up on one knee like Al ("Mammy") Jolson...
...playing Names in their awards. Exhibiting at Pittsburgh are such newsworthy names as Georges Braque, André Derain, Marie Laurencin, Kees Van Dongen, Rockwell Kent, Eugene Speicher, Horse-Painter A. J. Munnings, Dame Laura Knight, Dod Proctor, Art Theorist Roger Elliot Fry. Yet second prize went to one Alexander Brook of New York, third prize ($500) to Charles Dufresne of Paris. Since Picasso's portrait of his wife is not for sale, Artist Brook's still-life of a cat, three peaches, a begonia and a door brought him $2,000-the Albert C. Lehmann prize...
Club Members of New York for 1930-31, out last week, revealed that Harry Payne Whitney had dropped four clubs (St. Nicholas, Piping Rock, Jockey, Creek) since last year, joined two (Brook & Yale), leaving Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt III undisputed No. 1 New York clubman with 16 memberships- Racquet & Tennis, Union, N. Y. Yacht, Union League, Century, Tuxedo, Brook, Metropolitan, Piping Rock, Turf & Field. Engineers, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht. Automobile Club of America, Yale, Sleepy Hollow, Knickerbocker...
...Hurricanes (Stephen Sanford, Eric Pedley, Capt. C. T. I. Roark, Robert E. Strawbridge Jr.): the U. S. Open Polo Championship at Meadow Brook, coming from behind with four goals in a row to beat Winston Guest and his Templetons...