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...commonwealths of Arkansas and Idaho having matched Nevada's go-day residence divorce law (TIME, March 16), Nevada last week went them 48 days???and then some?better. At Carson City, Governor Balzar signed a bill permitting divorce after a 42-day sojourn in the State, with the provision that grounds need not be specified unless the action is contested. Also he signed a measure legalizing old-time gambling. The new divorce law is effective May 1; the gambling law went in at once...
Although the magazine had begun to deteriorate editorially, 1920 found it at the peak (up to then) of its fortunes and with about one million circulation. (It had been bought from the Collier estate by Crowell Publishing Co.) Then came evil days???a business depression, a paper shortage, a printers' strike. For a few weeks the magazine actually failed to appear. By 1922 Collier's, definitely inferior in content, had tumbled to th place in general magazine advertising. In two years its revenues fell off more than 80%. Making matters worse, into the 5f field came Liberty...
Morocco (Paramount). This is the most brilliantly acted and directed picture released since Pathe's Holiday. The story is nothing much?the French Foreign Legion as the background for the love affair of a private soldier and a vaudeville star who has seen better days???yet its often mechanical sequences are brought to life by Director Josef von Sternberg. Always aware that a moving picture ought to move, von Sternberg tells the story rapidly and often silently, so that Morocco has the effect of being a silent picture into which dialog has been woven, not the "incidental dialog...
Flint Rhem, pitching for the Cardinals ?the same Rhem who recently said that he had been kidnapped, forced to drink hard liquor for two days???got through the first and second innings all right except for Cochrane's drive and a run batted in by Foxx. But in the third and fourth the Athletics knocked him out of the box. By the time Street took Rhem out, the Athletics had four more runs. Relief Pitchers Jimmy Lindsey and Sylvester Johnson allowed no more hits, but the lead was safe. Score: Philadelphia 6, St. Louis...
...work days???three a week, the members having furiously opposed a four-day week, though for laboring men they favor six toil days between Sundays...