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David Alfaro Siqueiros was a drummer boy in the Villa Revolution. Afterward the Carranza Government sent him to Europe to study. As inspirations he brought back photos of Italian primitives and U. S. oil derricks. When the Syndicate was formed Painter Siqueiros became its mouthpiece. Versatile, he edited the painters' newspaper, El Machete, made speeches at mass meetings, painted the Burial of a Workman which was stoned. For distraction he lay on his bed with a revolver and shot dotted-line pictures into the ceiling. At art school he ate the fruit and vegetable still-life models, saying "a real...
...picture. Chaney redeems himself bringing a Red Cross train over tracks covered with water to a flooded town. There is no dialog but plenty of noise-a monotonous scraping sound no more like the big-bellied voice of a real train than the imitation puffing that any trap-drummer can produce with a pair of wire brushes. Chaney acts well; he even walks in the stiff-shoulder fashion of old trainmen. At times he gets into the unreal story the dramatic flavor of its background. Best shot: Chaney feeling the driving-pinions, worn smooth by thousands of miles...
...spirit. . . ." Such were a few of the many words that' fell upon the ears of 4,000 tottering Confederate veterans, their wives and progeny gathered last week in Charlotte, N. C., for their thirty-ninth reunion. They were a lean, wiry lot, with 84-year-old drummer boys as youngsters of the gathering. The U. S. Marine Band played "Dixie." So great was the excitement that two oldsters were hospitalized. One died. Old codgers sat about swapping stories of Fair Oaks, Chickamauga, Spottsylvania Court House. Time, for a few days, was turned back for these lingering...
...salesman to the consumer. In the case of businesses which manufacture paper, dye stuffs, and other materials the goods go through the hands of at least one sales representative. The general field of salesmanship has shown many changes in the last forty or fifty years. Originally there was the drummer whose chief function was simply to unload; then came the salesman who again tried more or less to unload the product, but who usually sought to do a more intelligent job than had previously been done. As business has developed the purchasing agent has come into being, the service element...
...when American Telephone & Telegraph Co. gave a private showing of sound-pictures of people singing, an orchestra playing, a drummer drumming, officials of the company waited anxiously for the verdict of the man for whom the showing had been arranged?Adolph Zukor, president of Paramount-'amous Players-Lasky Corp.* Mr. Zukor said then: "I think it will be good some day. I'd like to see somebody perfect it. Myself, I can't handle it until it's better." Last week Mr. Zukor said: "From now on at least 50% of our productions will be sound pictures...