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Street Girl (Radio). This first venture into the movie business of Radio Corp. of America has no air of being an experiment. The principals-Jack Oakie and Betty Compson-are experienced film actors; the plot, involving jealousy in a song-and-kiss troupe, is the main staple of the current season. The tunes are like hundreds of other tunes you've heard, and the fantastic lives, childish problems, and unreal reactions of the characters belong to a type familiar to cinema-seers since 1910. A girl from one of those Graustarkian Balkan kingdoms changes the destinies of the boys...
...Current expenditures . . . of the Army and Navy constitute the largest military budget in the world and at a time when there is less real danger of extensive disturbance to peace than at any time in more than half a century...
...Africa the current champion of Europe, a Negro, challenges all white men. Into the ring springs Otho, feeling himself a new "white hope." In the tenth round Otho remembers his family motto "Up, Belleme! ... I Saye and I Doe," gets up from the floor, knocks the Negro out, thus proving the naive hypothesis that "though an English gentleman's strength and insensibility might be inferior to those of a Negro, his spirit might be superior. . . . Mind triumphant over matter." Be-ing champion of Europe makes Otho friends again with Margaret...
...being poured into the stock market is that there are many new stocks to buy. Privately held, closed corporations are issuing stock, taking the public into partnership. Corporations that have long been publicly -owned are undertaking new financing for expansion purposes. And the merger trend-outstanding movement in current industry-continues as an important element in Industry's insatiable appetite for money. Of last week's new deals of various kinds, the following were of particular interest...
...ambassadors or ministers and their wives, not to vice-consular ladies. Promptly the agents broke the seals, opened the trunks, lifted out laces, silks, and many a small tin box. The tin boxes contained a substance which the Customs men instantly recognized as opium?about $600,000 worth at current U. S. prices...