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...receivership, into bankruptcy court went funny Judge last week with its $500,000 debts (TIME, March 14). Also in court appeared Publisher Clair Maxwell of Life, Publisher George T. Delacorte Jr. of Ballyhoo and a half-dozen lawyers representing unknown clients to bid for the purchase of the magazine. None of them got it. Instead the staff of Judge, headed by Publisher Fred L. Rogan, raised $17,000 cash among themselves, got their magazine back again free of debt. Immediately the staff set to work upon next week's issue, promised there would be no lapse of publication. Reputedly...
...Rene Clair, director of the film "Le Million," also supervised the production of "Sous les Toits de Paris," and is noted for his subordination of dialogue to pantomine. The plot of the film is chiefly that of a lost lottery ticket and of the frantic efforts to recover...
...Million", French talking film, by Rene Clair, will be shown at the new School of Geographical Exploration, Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, on Tuesday, Dec. 1 and Wednesday, Dec, 2, the first of a series of talking films in French made available to students of Harvard and Radcliffe, free of charge, through the generosity of sponsors in Cambridge and Boston. One performance will be given on December 1, at 8.15 o'clock, and two, an afternoon show at 1.45 o'clock and an evening performance at 8.15 o'clock, on December...
...Eagle as a linotype operator. Last week he was made editor, succeeding Dr. Arthur Millidge Howe who took the title editor emeritus. Dr. Howe, a cultured Canadian gentleman who walks with a painful limp, served the Eagle for 38 years. In 1915 he succeeded the late famed Dr. St. Clair McKelway as editor, made a creditable but unspectacular record. Dr. Howe will continue to write Eagle editorials at his home. Editor Rodgers, sober & industrious, has a good editor's capacity for indignation. He is well known for his books on Walt Whitman, who edited the Eagle...
...Bangkok almost no one went to bed except the King & Queen that night. He took off his spectacles and they both put on national costume, for public policy and the photographers. During the celebration a perspiring student beamed at U. S. Correspondent St. Clair McKelway...