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...sedate is New York's Century Association that its officers once prohibited bridge games in its austere clubhouse (43rd Street just west of Fifth Avenue) lest the muffled excitement of such play disturb the tranquillity of other members. Organized by William Cullen Bryant in 1847 to promote "the advancement of art and literature," the Century selects members on the basis of cultural superiority. Its atmosphere of wealthy exclusiveness is matched only by its reputation for eminent respectability. Famed among its members are Herbert Clark Hoover, John Pierpont Morgan, George Woodward Wickersham, William Howard Taft, John William Davis, Henry Lewis Stimson...
...Locked Door (United Artists). When you discover that the door in question was distinguished from other doors on the corridor by the words "Do Not Disturb" you will realize, if you have not already learned it from the masthead, that this piece is an adaptation of "The Sign On the Door," a melodrama that has been aliment for road-shows for a decade or two. It is a problem play, the chief problem for skeptical spectators being whether or not the door of an ordinary hotel-apartment can be locked from the outside so that the person inside cannot...
...order to avoid the coated, glossy papers which disturb the eyes but which are well adapted to half-tone reproduction, FORTUNE'S photographs are reproduced by the "Intaglio" process-the reverse of ordinary half-tone printing-which works well with heavy, glossless papers. The type used is a reproduction by the English Monotype Co. of the letters designed by the 18th Century craftsman Baskerville. His delicate feat was to modernize and clarify the types which then existed. FORTUNE'S letter has none of the condensation and "meanness" of later type faces...
Carlsbad Cave. A bright young man prepared last week to probe big, black Carlsbad Cave, the vastest known cavern in the earth, and disturb the millions of bats living therein. Frank Ernest Nicholson, 28, Texas-born journalist-explorer, within the fortnight will take a typewriter, radio transmitter, telephone with lengthy wire, block & tackle, torches, cameras, food, a physician, a mineralogist, an electrician, a representative of the Department of the Interior and four helpers to a cliff of the Guadalupe Mountains 100 miles from El Paso, Tex., and 30 miles south of Carlsbad, N. Mex. Near the cliff's foot...
...feel sure that Myra will desert her lover rather than pollute him, that he will ultimately learn the truth and ignore it, that she will then promise to be a good girl until he returns from the wars with a marriage license. The playwright who has done nothing to disturb these expectations is Robert Emmet Sherwood, usually devoted not to emotional ferments but to the risabilities (The Road to Rome, The Queen's Husband). The very modest measure of success that he achieves with this sentimentally serious play is largely due to June Walker and to Glenn Hunter, still...