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...Elmer J. Boeseka Jr. of California prevented the college-boy Old Aikens, green-shirted national junior champions (TIME, Aug. 5), from becoming the year's outstanding U. S. polo team. by galloping through them, 18 goals to 8, in the final of the Waterbury Cup matches at Meadow Brook. Both teams were put out early in the open championship, won last fortnight by Irish Captain C. T. I. Roark's four...
Birthday. Major S. Willard Saxton, only living member of Brook Farm;* in Washington...
...Sinners (Paramount). Believing, probably correctly, that flattery is a persuasive form of entertainment, producers are presenting with increasing confidence and frequency pictures which assume sophistication in the audience. Only a few of the time-honored tenets of cine-morality are now retained, but these unshakably. In this picture, Clive Brook, as Ruth Chatterton's husband, can be definitely unfaithful to her, but Miss Chatterton after winning him back cannot take her revenge by going to Italy with another fellow as Ethel Barrymore did when she acted in this play (The Constant Wife) on the stage. Miss Chatterton goes away...
...slur on Actress Barrymore was intended or contained in TIME'S report. Scarlet Sister Mary's publisher advertised her as "The harlot of Blue Brook Plantation...
...sensitive nature of onetime Foreign Minister Count Yasuya Uchida could not brook such an irregularity. He was responsible for the Kellogg treaty in Japan. He felt that he was put in the position of presenting an unconstitutional treaty to his country. Piqued, he resigned from the Privy Council, paid a farewell visit to Prince Saonji, last of the Elder Statesmen or Genro...