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Relays. Californians were appalled when Frank Wykoff of Southern California, Bob Kiesel of the University of California and Hector Dyer of the Los Angeles A. C. were shut out by Tolan, Metcalfe and George Simpson in the Olympic trials. With Emmett Toppino of New Orleans, Wykoff, Kiesel and Dyer formed a "goat" relay team which last week set an incredibly fast world's record (40 sec.) in the 400-metre final, with Germany second. In the 1,600-metre relay Bill Carr led in the British anchor man, Lieut. Godfrey Rampling, by 20 yd. The world's record...
Page Pygmalion (Carl Henkle, author; Alan Merrill, producer) is an abortive farce about a young sculptor who is in love with his model but wants to marry an heiress. The sculptor's cousin John from Oklahoma City (Robert Emmett Keane) has the bright idea of persuading the model to mount a pedestal and simulate the statue for which she posed. Having heard many things, the model astonishes a large gathering by coming down off her pedestal and announcing that the heiress is. the illegitimate daughter of a janitor. The sculptor gives up sculpting, marries the model, returns to Oklahoma...
...medical center announced the appointment of Dr. Urban Maes as professor of surgery and chief of the surgical department of L. S. U. Dr. Maes, nationally known cancer expert, has been a member of the Tulane faculty since 1906. Tulanians gasped with astonishment. So did Dr. Emmett Lee Irwin, who had not resigned from the positions to which Dr. Maes was appointed. He immediately announced he would not give up his job without a court fight. Said...
George Bruce Cortelyou, onetime (1907-09) Secretary of the Treasury and president of Consolidated Gas Co. of New York was elected president of National Electric Light Association. By past procedure the election would have gone to Marshall Emmett Sampsell, first vice president and head of Insull's Central Illinois Public Service Co. The action was taken to mean that the rift caused when the Association's big eastern members resigned last year is completely healed. Cause of it was the feeling that N. E. L. A. was dominated by the Insull group, went...
...murder case and drinks to forget. Young love burgeons while gyp and doublecross are rampant all around, practiced by the proprietor (Boris Kar-loff), his wife (Dorothy Revier), her lover, the guests and Lew Ayres's mother (Hedda Hopper). Besides the burgeoning juveniles, only an honest policeman (Robert Emmett O'Connor) and a ratiocinative Negro doorman stay sweet & simple. While Ayres & Clarke prattle innocently about emigrating to the island of Bali in the South Pacific, gangsters wipe out the proprietor & his wife. The honest policeman kills the gangsters. Typical hardboiled shot: Mae Clarke telling the proprietor...