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Vendetta. Of merchandising wars, none is more famed than the Gimbels v. Macy's battle, in which the leader is Macy's with its policy of "underselling by 6% all competitors who do not sell for cash." Yet last week Gimbels parried with the flattest lie-direct yet seen in the war. "Forget it!" screeched the Gimbels advertisement, "Don't you believe for a minute that you can save a cent (to say nothing of six per cent) by buying for cash. . . . Gimbels prices are often a dollar less but rarely a penny more. . . . Gimbels will...
...Instead of protecting you from these young men, we should protect them from you." This is not one of the best pieces, but it is one of Clara Bow's best. One Jack Oakie, as a sailor named "Searchlight," ought to get somewhere as a character actor with the flattest face on the two-dimensional medium. James Hall and the subtitles make the breezy gob almost true...
Dwellers on the world's flattest continent prepared excitedly last week for a great moment now imminent in their history, the opening of a capital city closely patterned on, but designed to eclipse, Washington, D. C. On a high plateau, equidistant between Sydney and Melbourne, the new capital of Australia has risen, after six years of labor by 3,000 men and more than a decade of intensive planning. Australians, who number less than six million, pronounced last week, with a sense of awful achievement the name of their new Federal Capital, "CANBERRA...
...from music and given a commonplace boy's life until he had matured. The parents would not listen. They were intoxicated by the prosperity and glory that their son brought them. In a year the boy's talent had been worked to collapse. His interpretations became the flattest routine work. Then he fell ill and died. A contrasting case is that of Josef Hoffman, who, beginning as a nine-year-old prodigy of the piano, was allowed to make an initial sensation, and then was taken away from public appearances until he had matured...
...Freshman games which took place yesterday afternoon came very near being a complete failure and reflected little credit on Ninety-six. They were about the poorest and flattest attempt at track games that we have ever witnessed, and compared to the games of the last few years they were very discouraging. Ninety-six, either because they have no material or no interest - have made a poor showing in this regard. We understand that some of the competitors who had entered were obliged to attend football practice, but this slight exception is no excuse for the miserable number of entries...