Word: interests
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...copied* from the New York World the chances are you have)-it seemed to me to fit so many of the captious readers you apparently have (and are not alone in this). Do most people read for the pleasure of being critical and not for the absorbing interest of the knowledge gained? From one who admires the magazine's style and learns much. MADALEN DINGLEY LEETCH...
...Different Eyes (Fox). When the jury decides that Edmund Lowe was the fellow who killed Warner Baxter, a young girl jumps up in the courtroom and tells what really happened. In spite of this framework, the courtroom atmosphere is pretty real and the story depends enough on character to interest its actors. Best shot: mixed bridge in the Manning's livingroom...
...Guild.* Starting officially in 1919, the Guildsmen planned two plays for their first season. They estimated they would need $2,000. They got $675-revenue from advance subscriptions taken by 135 sanguine friends and acquaintances. Most of the sum was invested in Jacinto Bena-vente's Bonds of Interest, a dismal failure. With the residue the Guildsmen painted new scenery on the back of the old and gave St. John Ervine's John Ferguson. This time their success was tumultuous. The play ran for 156 performances, then toured. Last fortnight the Guildsmen celebrated a prosperous tenth anniversary...
...power trust with reference to newspaper ownership and to make a report at its 1930 meeting, by which time more data will be available on the program of the trust, especially that of International Paper Co. This company was named because of its purchase of a dominant interest in the Boston Herald and Traveler, because it manufactures more newsprint than any other company in the world, and because it is a subsidiary of International Paper and Power Co., vigorous participant in New England's "White Gold Rush" (TIME, April 22). ¶ Editor-in-chief George B. Parker (Scripps-Howard...
...clear. As everyone had expected, the speech urged upon the deputies as their supreme duty ratification of the enabling legislation for the treaty and concordat recognizing Pope Pius XI as a temporal sovereign (TIME, Feb. 18). Apart from that, Vittorio Emanuele touched upon only one topic of general interest, disarmament...