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Stephen Chase (Pat O'Brien) arrives in China seriously possessed of the ideals inculcated by the company's training school. When he invents a cheap lamp which will make coolies buy more oil, he hands a drawing of it to his boss (Arthur Byron). When his fiancee jilts him, he marries the first presentable girl (Josephine Hutchinson) he meets in Shanghai because to return to his post single might cause him to look ridiculous and thus diminish his value to the company. Even when, as a reward for years of faithful service, his boss receives a humiliating demotion...
...years ago General Electric Co. filed suits in a U. S. District Court in California against a group of Japanese importers trading under the names of Tokyo Lamp Co., International Lamp Co. and Pacific Importing Co., charging that the Japanese had 1) sold bulbs which infringed upon G. E. patents, and 2) caused G. E. serious damage by marketing these bulbs under the trademark T. E. at ruinously low prices. Last week the court handed down a decision which may make history. First it authorized General Electric to collect from the defendants "such damages as may have been caused...
Typical of the whole show was On Shipboard by Henry Bacon (see cut), showing a group of hardy passengers on a liner of the swinging lamp era trying to forget their interior troubles. Artist Bacon was an excellent draughtsman with an instinctive sense of composition but beyond that his artistic mind did not rise. Yet in the ingenuous 1870's his name meant much in the art world. Wounded in the Civil War, he went to Paris to recuperate and study art, spending most of his life thereafter in Europe. A pupil of the painstaking Jean Leon Gerome, Alexandre...
...rare gas neon was discovered in 1898 (Ramsey & Travers of England). The neon lamp was invented in 1911 (Claude of France). Neon signs, however, did not festoon the streets of the U. S. in any numbers until the late...
...they see. I, Claudius surprised some literary quidnuncs by becoming a bestseller. Its sequel, Claudius the God (April choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club) will surprise them even more if it is not. As carefully documented as its predecessor, Claudius the God smells as little of the lamp, reads like a really contemporary account. Most readers will agree that it is a better book than I, Claudius...