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...Joseph Morris, is a second Morton Downey; he rehearses in the incinerator at Clifton...
...Earnest Hemingway: An American Byron"--thus does Clifton Fadiman title his latest article for the Nation. As he proceeds to support, the thesis implied in the title, his readers are introduced to a fairly new, and very interesting estimate of themselves. Due to the peculiar way in which he symbolizes the present generation, states Mr. Fadiman, there has sprung up about Homingway "a real contemporary here myth." The similarity between Byron and Hemingway, says the author, lies in the fact that they were both post-war men, and that "in the heart of both lies a tragic sense of defeat...
...most attractive female in the cast. Funnyman Lahr's noisy gullet has seldom been put to wider use.. He is successively a slightly bewildered master of a trained dog act ("to train dogs takes a lot of time, patience-and dogs"); an imitator of mammy-singers and Clifton Webb; a manufacturer of bath-tub gin; the victim of a barber's nervous-handed wife; a man undergoing the third-degree and sticking to his "lullaby...
Died. Moe Mark, 60, pioneer cinema showman; of a cerebral hemorrhage while en route from a Clifton Springs (N. Y.) sanitarium to his White Plains home; in Utica, N. Y. With his brother Mitchell H., he first showed moving pictures with Thomas Alva Edison's kinetoscope (1894) in a Buffalo dime museum. In 1903 he showed a first film of fire horses answering an alarm. In 1905, in Lynn, Mass., a colored film of the Oberammergau Passion Play was sensational. In 1914 the Brothers Mark opened the first million-dollar Broadway cinema palace, the Mark Strand. Impresario...
Financial troubles force students out of college. This in turn forces teachers out of jobs. To bring the outs together a "depression college" was announced last month by Dr. Arthur Cheney Clifton Hill Jr., Dartmouth 1925, economics professor 1927-29 at Springfield College (Mass.), staff member last year at Brookings Institution in Washington, where he took his doctorate in economics. Dr. Hill picked Port Royal for his college chiefly because of its proximity to Washington. It was comparatively simple to arrange leases on Port Royal dwellings, two colonial manors with wooded grounds, the old brick Town Hall...