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William S. Hart, flint-faced hero of the silent Westerns, gave an interview in Man hattan, observed: "It would be ill-becoming of me to say anything against the talkies. But it's my honest opinion that the old, silent pictures were superior." Buster Keaton was arrested for drunkenness, pleaded with the judge that he had asked cops to take care of him, therefore knew he needed aid, therefore was not drunk. Unconvinced, the judge fined...
...Mexico has also produced a pair of torchy ladies who vocalize in the best black-velvet-gown-and-chiffon-handkerchief manner. One is Adelina Garcia, happily represented by a sad ballad called Desesperadamente (OKeh). The other is glamorous Elvira Rios, familiar to Man hattan nightclubbers. Her cello-voice throbs best on Incertidumbre and Vereda Tropical (Decca...
...return on its invested capital was only 1.8%. Yet during Depression two eastern trunk lines have spent or will shortly spend a sum sufficient to build and equip a system as big as Atlantic Coast Line R.R. New York Central's improvements on Man- hattan's West Side call for a total outlay of $175,000,000. Pennsylvania's great electrification and terminal program is costing...
Part II was Paul Cornell Co. of Man-hattan,* founded by Mr. Cornell when he set up in business on his own account in 1926. Paul Lincoln Cornell, 37, was one of eleven children of a poor Methodist minister in Fond du Lac, Wis. He worked for B. F. Goodrich Co.. went to War, got into advertising. One product of his War service is that he is already anonymously preserved for posterity in marble; as the central figure of New York's memorial to its 107th Regiment, he charges gallantly into Fifth Avenue at 66th Street. No believer...
...price of gold and the march of science have combined to make treasure hunting a practical as well as a romantic pursuit. Last week famed Master Locksmith Charles Courtney, who rifled the safes of the sunken Egypt 400 ft. undersea (TIME, June 2, July 18), was back in Man- hattan with a sensational version of the salvaging of H. M. S. Hampshire in the North Sea. The Hampshire, victim of a German mine, went down with Earl Kitchener and some $10,000,000 in gold aboard...