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...night watchman, who had been discharged, had continued secretly at his conscientious watch and extracted the $2 nightly as his proper wage. Shortly thereafter Mr. Patterson got control of a small register manufactory in Dayton, initiated intelligent salesmanship into U. S. business created many scientific management practices. He could brook no inter-organization authority competing with his own. When a man grew indispensable to N. C. R. Mr. Patterson fired him. Many present high business executives were trained in his N. C. R. school for salesmen: President Henry Theobald of the Toledo Scale Co., President Jacob Oswald of the Rotospeed...
Fenway--"Seven Sinners", with Marie Prevost and Alice Brook, and "His People", with Rudolph Schildekraut: Reviewed in this issue...
...Seven Sinners" is not as important as Mr. Schildekraut's troubles in the Ghetto, but it is far more readily appreciated. Miss Prevost is given a chance to display her saucy mischievous talent in a hectic tale of thieves and thievery. Mr. Brook in his calm imperturbable way is called upon to sleep below a dripping shower in the bath-tub. There are momentary chances for Lubitsch subtlety which are ignored. But the direction has added instead a dash of slapstick. Only one character in the picture is honest, and he turns out to be a policeman, which...
...scrimmage with several men on the ice resulted as Cumings blocked Davis' hard drive. The puck trickled out to the boards, and while the Nassau forwards were searching for the rubber under Harvard's prone sentinel, Scott dashed up the right lane, swerved pass Wilkinson, and passed Cole-brook to put the Crimson ahead...
...score. With half a minute to go the whole Tiger pack came down the ice in close formation, but Chase robbed Davis of the puck, and with no one in front of him, bore down upon the Tiger goalguard. A goal seemed sure, but as the bell rang, Cole-brook topped off his evening's work, by meeting Chase in a fierce dive that prevented a score...