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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The Kiss (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Greta Garbo is in this one. It is silent, yet its climax takes place in the locale that sound pictures have dealt with more successfully than any other?a murder trial. Garbo's brilliance as one more misunderstood wife is alone responsible for the crowds...
Appointment Declined. Dr. Howard Chandler Robbins, onetime Dean of Manhattan's Cathedral of St. John the Divine; to be Protestant Episcopal Bishop Coadjutor of Southern Ohio. Reason: He was lately elected to the chair of Pastoral Theology at General Theological Seminary. "I feel that I should not resign this post...
Died. Pal, 14, famed cinema bullterrier, in Hollywood; of old age. For ten years he chased and threatened the trouser-seats of Harold Lloyd, Larry Semon et al., scampered with Hal Roach's Rascals, paralyzed Negro extras, once performed with the late Wallace Reid.
*Not to be confused with John William Davis, Manhattan lawyer, onetime (1924) Democratic candidate for President.
*The Hart, Schaffner & Marx prize for an undergraduate economic essay, founded in 1903, was won last week by Jean Trepp, Wellesley, 1929. Subject: "Trade Union Interest in Production."