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Buckley Joyce Thomas is the bellowing, ranting, go-getter, international correspondent of the Chicago Globe. He appears on the screen captured by Riffs; he is rescued by the French, to the accompaniment of bullets, and grumbling by the agent of the Times. He goes to Paris, is decorated, and leaves for Moscow with his employer's inamorata, a girl with a soul. There he tricks the members of other papers, sits with Stalin, and generally conducts the sensational journalism of which he is an advocate. He is encouraged by Kate, a newspaperwoman, who, rather obviously, really cares...
...Koehler, administrative go-getter, was the Lyceum's real head, lost no opportunities to show Munck his place. Munck swallowed his pride, went on teaching piano and trying unsuccessfully to get on with his composition. In one pupil, tall, gawky Jeanette. he became really interested; soon he was in love with her. When she went away with a younger man Munck hardly cared what happened next. After a while he pulled himself together, resigned from the Lyceum, got a job kettledrumming in an orchestra. He commuted to his work from a shabby town in New Jersey. There till late...
...continue for a long time, and these institutions will desire to obtain large sums of money to maintain an athletic regime so that their boys may be induced to play games which apparently they would not otherwise play. Hence the need for football or some equally good money-getter...
Yale is favored by the presence of its expert net-guardian, Curtiss, whose non-chalent impenetrability last Saturday night almost completely check-mated Harvard's most desperate cannonades. A vital factor in the Eli campaign is the availability of Iglehart, brilliant defenseman and goal-getter. Sinus trouble prevented his taking part in the second game and it is extremely dubious whether recovery will be prompt enough to insure a reappearance. Coach Stubbs of Harvard, on the other hand, has his team at full strength...
...then taking a share of the box-office over & above the amount needed for expenses. Paderewski, playing on percentage, will make approximately $250,000 for himself from his 65 concerts this season. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett's cinema success has made him the season's second best money-getter...