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...Barry, broke box-office records in Manhattan in 1922, Pola crossed the Atlantic, was met at the boat by Adolph Zukor with a police escort, bands, flowers, photographers. Zukor ordered a dinner for 300, liquor for $5,200. In Hollywood, Pola's fame as a vamp grew with Forbidden Paradise, in which she played with Adolphe Menjou. In six years Pola played in 21 pictures, rose to $300,000 for a single picture...
...years ago the Federal Communications Commission discovered that Georgia's wirehaired, rabble-rousing Representative Gene ("Goober") Cox had received a $2,500 gift of stock from radio station WALB (Atlanta, Ga.), after helping the station get its license from FCC. (By law, Congressmen are forbidden to accept fees for practicing before Government bureaus.) Ever since then, Gene Cox has tried to tear FCC apart...
Signals and Scissors. Whistling, humming, singing and talking were forbidden. Once when the Bishop tried breaking the no-talking rule, as everyone did, he got "a good wigging from the head warden." Nevertheless he managed to send out word that he would say daily Morning and Evening Prayers, invited his neighbors to join him silently at those hours. He tapped signals on the walls to announce the opening and closing of services. On Sundays and saints' days he celebrated the Holy Communion. For the Host he kept back a piece of bread from the preceding evening meal, substituted water...
Sven Malmberg is a Swedish orchestra leader. In the blacked-out cities of Germany he played forbidden jazz to nerve-racked citizens of the Third Reich, who wanted hot music to jar them out of their depression. To questioning police. Malmberg and his audience would explain it was Belgian music. Last month Malmberg was playing in Dortmund when the British struck that city with two of the war's most devastating air raids, then cut off its water supply by blasting the Ruhr's Mohne and Eder dams. Malmberg lived through those raids and, returned to Stockholm, told...
...pleasant change was inaugurated by FCC, which relaxed one of its most cherished regulations, authorized San Francisco station KYA to use point-to-point transmission to dispatch the longshoremen. Point-to-point is a signal beamed directly at persons or places. FCC has hitherto forbidden broadcasters to use it because it invades the territory of telegraph, telephone and other communication companies...