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...Commissioner at Jerusalem, Sir John Chancellor, to take steps for "the collection of evidence before it disappears" as to whether the Jew-Arab clashes which began last month at Jerusalem's famed Wailing Wall were "spontaneous or pre-conceived." This evidence will be sifted by a special British parliamentary com- mission, created last week by Baron Passfield and chairmanned by Sir Walter Shaw, recently Chief Justice of the British Straits Settlements, a colonial jurist of tact and renown...
...high command. Senectissimus may have had something to do with Pershing's marvelous rise from Captain to Brigadier, but in this important matter he had no hand. This can be easily verified by consulting with Ex-Secretary Newton Diehl Baker or Brigadier General George Van Horn Moseley in com mand of the First Cavalry Division of El Paso, Texas. PAUL GALLAGHER...
...Singer Sargent, nor a trenchant controversialist like the late Joseph Pennell. Insurgent, he did not crusade. He taught instead. Born in Cincinnati of French-English-Irish descent, he studied at the Pennsylvania and Julien (Paris) Academies, at the Paris Beaux-Arts. French precision and orthodoxy never made him feel com fortable. Strolling the corridors of the Louvre, he revered Rembrandt, Velasquez, Hals, but was long unable to evolve con victions of his own. Like most fine artists, he remained, even after success, a student of the masters. "Put on a pair of false whiskers...
...Paris last week, artistic Frenchmen worried over a report that members of the Comédie Française were to make talking cinemas for U. S. producers. French cinema exhibitors worried more over the news that all representatives of U. S. producer-members (Paramount-Famous-Lasky, Warner Bros., Fox, United Artists, Universal, Radio-Keith-Orpheum, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) of the Cinema Syndicate de France were resigning in protest over the new French law, effective in September, limiting the importation of foreign-produced films to four for each French film exported...
...whole solemn rigmarole of tariff-making was started over again, as if action by the House had never been taken. Witnesses began marching forward to repeat to the Senators the identical arguments for special favors they had made last winter before the House Ways & Means Com- mittee. The same disputed items-cattle, meat, hides, flaxseed, fresh vegetables, dairy products, sugar, shoes, cement, shingles-were the items for discussion...