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Last week in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace was held the 34th annual National Motor Boat Show, No. 1 rendezvous for pleasure boatmen. On display were 150 boats ranging from a 5-ft., $20 play boat to a 53-ft., $31,000 motor yacht. But the boats that attracted most attention were the 30-to-40-ft., $3,000-to-$ 10,000 cruisers, comfortable enough for week-end sporting or water-gypsy travel...
...mail, like grand opera, is something nobody expects to make a profit. But last week, with all the figures added up for the fiscal year ending last June 30, U. S. air mail revenue was reckoned at $15,301,210; contract pay to airlines at $14,564,256. Result: a $736,954 profit, first in U. S. air mail history...
Jealous as a hen with one chick is Grand Rapids of its furniture shows. Mad as a wet hen is Grand Rapids when Chicago's bigger furniture shows are compared to Grand Rapids'. Pointing out that at the Chicago Mart buyers can purchase anything from iron nails to beef on the hoof, Grand Rapidans boast that their Market sells only furniture...
Last week Grand Rapids cackled with delight as its 123rd semi-annual market opened. On display for the first time was a brand-new furniture style, designed to "perpetuate Grand Rapids' reputation as the furniture capital of America." Grand Rapids (of Kent County, Michigan) named it Kentwood...
...regards acting, the honors are all Von Stroheim's. The former stormy petrol of Hollywood has in exile created a far greater characterization than ever he did before. His performance would seem to be the one great thing of "Grand Illusion." Although neither plot, treatment, direction, or his fellow actors maintain the superbly high standard that Von Stroheim sets, the picture is far above average...