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Monogram's Western program is built around tall (6 ft., 5 in.) John Wayne, born Michael Morrison, Pasadena socialite, onetime University of Southern California footballer. His horse's name is Lightning. Dirt cheap compared to most pictures, Westerns cost from $4,000 to $30,000 each. Famed Hoot Gibson (horse: "Hooter") makes his pictures on his ranch near Hollywood wearing the championship belt he won at Pendleton Round...
Oscar Florianus Bluemner comes from Hanover, Germany. His father was an architect who had built up a nice practice in Italianate brick churches in the south Tyrol. At the age of 18 Oscar Bluemner gave his first portrait exhibition in Berlin, shortly afterward won medals at the Royal Academy where he was studying painting and architecture. In 1892 an artistic argument with the All Highest, Wilhelm II, caused him to leave Germany suddenly for the U. S. For two years he lived in Bowery flophouses, working as a bartender when he could, selling packets of needles on the sidewalk...
...University of Rochester had the tremendous luck to be located in the city of Rochester, N. Y., home of George Eastman and Kodaks. The generous Kodak-maker showered Rochester with gifts of $35,500,000 during his lifetime, $20,000,000 more at his death in 1932. Rochester built a School of Music, a School of Medicine & Dentistry, a whole new campus for its College of Arts & Sciences, and still has an endowment of $54,000,000, fifth largest in the land...
...field of municipal government is one in which much work remains undone. Occasional reform administrations in our large cities simply emphasize the inadequacy of a system that renders periodic "reform" necessary. At Harvard an organization admirably equipped for the study of this problem has been built. This organization should not be allowed to atrophy for lack of a leader...
...H.A.A. has been looking into the expense of supporting the rinks, and it is quite unlikely that the necessary money will be available," announced Adolph W. Samborski '25, director of intramural athletics, yesterday. "However, if the rinks are not built, a tournament schedule will be drawn up, to be played off by the teams on any rinks which can be procured on occasion for the playing." Whence those "rinks on occasion" will be procured was not included in the announcement, and the possibility of organizing games on the Charles again loomed large...