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Work Done. Newsmen know that little is ever accomplished during their perennial Manhattan muster save chit-chat and jollification. Chief business done by the A. P.: the re-election of Publisher Frank Brett Noyes of the Washington Star to be president; the promotion of Associate Publisher John Cowles, 31, of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, from second vice president to first; denial of membership to the Wenatchee, Wash., Sun. Chief item of the formal program: a speech from Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson broadcast to the banquet from London. The toast (by custom the only...
...Chit-Chat. In hallways and hotelrooms outside the meetings, an outstanding subject for chit-chat was a circulation fight last fortnight between the Philadelphia Record and the Curtis-Martin papers (Public Ledger, Evening Ledger, Inquirer). An article by the Record had told the story thus...
...scrambled up and ran to her master. ". . . Here let us recall that in his memoirs, Fifty Years a Journalist, Melville E. Stone declared that 'the Associated Press is writing the real and enduring history of the world, and is not chronicling the trivial episodes, the scandal, and the chit-chat...
...better movies are on the current bill at the University Theatre this week. Ann Harding, in "Her Private Affair", shows how infinitely superior the better stage actresses are to the average movie-trained chit, and completely carries off a difficult part to the satisfaction of this reviewer's not lenient taste...
...able to whistle but which everyone will want to hear again. The negligible story tells of a boy (Norman Foster) who leaves Schenectady to write lyrics in Manhattan. His June Moon is a success and, having narrowly escaped marriage with a shapely extortionist (Lee Patrick), he weds the blonde chit whom he first met on the train (Linda Watkins...