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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...live down here in a small town on the Bay of Fundy. Educational facilities being poor, we depend on magazines and the radio for our development along this line, and in a town of this size one is apt to subscribe to any and all magazines in the hope of enlightenment...
...future of Cinema Arts will depend heavily on how its backers fare with an issue of 170,000 shares of stock at $2 a share, subject to SEC approval, to be offered to the public by William J. Mericka & Co. this week. Publisher Griffith-Grey -who enlarged his name in 1915 to avoid being confused with his famed brother, for whom he used to distribute pictures like Broken Blossoms, Intolerance, The Birth of a Nation-determined 18 months ago to get out Cinema Arts. Last autumn he startled the magazine world with the biggest dummy ever seen...
...Thirteenth Chair (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Like all stories which depend upon contrivance rather than on character, murder mysteries age fast. What is remarkable about The Thirteenth Chair is not that it is antiquated but that it should have withstood at all the fierce corrosion of two theatrical decades. Pathé made it as a silent in 1919, Metro as a talkie with Leila Hyams and Conrad Nagel...
Motorists of the State suffer further by the inferior gasoline as taxes encourage bootlegging. For example, an unscrupulous dealer in Hancock County might mix kerosene with his gasoline, and thus avoid a considerable part of the State and county taxes amounting to 9?. The amount he would avoid would depend upon the extent of the adulteration. . . . All Mississippi motorists pay plenty for their gasoline. Some pay a lot more than they think. CAL LEWIS...
...direction, the Maintenance Department has commenced during the current year and expects to continue in the future a vigorous effort to so arrange its work that practically continuous employment may be given to its men throughout the year to the end that they depend on a pay check every week, winter as well as summer...