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...Inglewood, 15 minutes from Hollywood, the new racing plant was already well under way. Since, in the Hollywood credo, no production has any excuse for being undertaken unless it can be bigger & better than the last, Jack Warner and his associates had planned accordingly. Santa Anita cost $1,000,000. Inglewood will cost $2,000,000. Santa Anita can seat 20,000. Inglewood will seat 25,000. Santa Anita snuggles at the foot of the picturesque Sierra Madre Mountains. There Inglewood was momentarily stumped. Inglewood is close to the sea but not close enough to afford its paying guests...
...Japanese Government appointed General Iwane Matsui to supreme command of the combined army and navy forces. Matsui understands the Chinese almost as well as his own countrymen, once cooperated with that intense Chinese patriot Sun Yatsen, "Founder of the Chinese Republic," to promote "Pan-Asianism" in China. Though this credo was directed against China's National Government as well as against Russia, Matsui was shrewd enough to fool a good many naturally-cautious Chinese, was received with open arms wherever he went. Now his job is not to fool them but to fight them...
...Charter Jubilee Art Show (Chicago got its city charter in 1837) was open to any Chicago artist regardless of credo and achievement. Each was invited to send two works. Some 500 painters hung 850 canvases, with a sprinkling of photographs, pastels, sculpture. All artists were requested to price their showings and almost all did so. Prices ranged from $1.50 for Gazelle (sculpture) to $10,000 for Typical Historical American Indian (sculpture). On opening day, the show, which will run until Sept. 7, attracted 2,000 visitors at 10? a head. At week's end attendance stood...
Just as Dave Beck has his "everything on wheels" so Harry Bridges has his "march inland," the Bridges credo calling for unity not only among waterfront workers but all workers in the surrounding territory. So he went after the warehousemen, who stand economically between the longshoremen and the teamsters. There he clashed with Dave Beck in a violent struggle which is still far short of settlement. Meantime Bridges is being attacked on the flank by Harry Lundeberg, a tough, towering Norwegian from Oslo who arrived on the Pacific Coast a few years after Harry Bridges. Like Bridges...
Cinema, Arts will "attempt to do for the Cinema what FORTUNE has done for Industry." Its credo is "That . . . more than any other form of art expression, the Cinema reflects and interprets the changing moods, fashions and philosophies of the times." Its hope is "to 'freeze' on paper something of the fleeting beauty of the films. . . ." That Cinema Arts' hope was completely realized by its first issue last week was debatable. Much of what it had frozen on its 90 pages, well-cushioned with advertising at both ends, was routine pressagent photography. But the textual interpretations...