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...bargain. "It was truly a princely gesture on the part of Mr. Eumorfopoulos," said he last week. "It is impossible to estimate the value of some of the pieces, but the collection might easily amount to ?500,000." The next great international exhibition at the Royal Academy's Burlington House will be of Chinese art, scheduled for next winter. Collector Eumorfopoulos has agreed to serve on the committee. He will sail for China next month to help choose some of the famed Forbidden City treasures which the Nationalist Govern-ment has offered to lend...
...Chicago, President O. C. Hulett of the Burlington (Wis.) Liars' Club announced that the diamond-studded gold medal for the best lie of the year had been awarded to Vern L. Osborn of Centralia, Wash. Vern L. Osborn's lie: ' was hunting one day with a mule that I had trained especially for trailing jack rabbits. The chase led to a thousand-foot precipice. The rabbit was going so fast it plunged over the brink...
Faster than Twentieth Century (54.1 m.p.h.), faster than the Broadway Limited (51.2 m.p.h.), faster than the Burlington's famed Zephyr (49.5 m.p.h.) was the train that Chicago & North Western Ry, sent over the rails between Chicago and Minneapolis last week. Called The 400 because it covers 400 miles in 400 minutes, North Western's new train made railroad history by being the fastest train scheduled on the American Continent, fastest in all the world on a stretch over 200 mi. But what made The 400 really significant news was that it was neither lightweight nor streamlined, powered...
Highly annoyed by North Western's new train last week was Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific R. R. Milwaukee officials claimed North Western had "jumped the gun" on a gentlemen's agreement between the Milwaukee, Burlington and North Western to institute high-speed schedules simultaneously next March. Caught napping, the Milwaukee Road quickly inaugurated mile-a-minute service between Chicago and Milwaukee (85 mi.), pushed delivery of two streamlined engines for its Chicago-Twin Cities route. Chicago, Burlington & Quincy R. R. quietly announced that it would put two Zephyrs on the Twin Cities run within 60 days, knock...
...Silver Streak (RKO) shows the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad's streamlined train as a capable deux ex machina in a melodrama of the rails. The Silver Streak, according to this picture, is the design of square-jawed young Tom Caldwell (Charles Starrett),* in love with the daughter (Sally Blane) of a railroad president. By refusing to try the train, B. J. Dexter (William Farnum), an obdurate and stupid tycoon, precipitates a broken heart for his daughter and a case of infantile paralysis for his son, Allan, an engineer at Boulder Dam. This makes it necessary for The Silver Streak, with...