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Total number of feature pictures scheduled for U. S. release next season is 912. Of these 485 will be made by major companies, 427 by minor and foreign producers. Paramount's quota is largest: 78 feature pictures, 113 shorts. Second biggest list is Twentieth Century-Fox's: 69 features, 100 shorts...
...slightly improved and renamed DC-2, was the result. Last week, the much-heralded DC-3 (also known as DST, for Douglas Sleeper Transport) finally made its debut. Almost identical with the DC2 in lines, it is 4-ft. longer, much fatter, seats 24 or sleeps 16. The largest landplane in the U. S., it cruises at 200 m.p.h., costs no more to run than the DC-2. At $105,000 apiece, ten have been ordered by United Air Lines, 20 by American Airlines. American got the first three, scheduled them to go into service this week between Newark...
Conventioneers were promised prizes for the largest orchestra, the orchestra which had traveled the greatest distance. Likewise this week there were to be banjo, mandolin, hillbilly, Hawaiian, junior, electro-phonic and popularity contests. To be seen and heard in Minneapolis were the most famed virtuosos of fretted instrumentalism, some of them playing on instruments worth thousands of dollars. Tenor Banjoist Albert Bellson played, for the first time anywhere, Bach's famed Chaconne, which is ordinarily a sombre, magnificent violin showpiece. Rev. Adam F. Hunkler, O.S.B., self-taught Catholic priest, played the five-string finger banjo on the same program...
...existence for four years has been Lilypons, Md., so named by its postmaster and mayor, Clarence Cornelius Curtis Thomas who also owns its chief industry: 135 acres of water-lily ponds and one of the world's largest goldfish hatcheries. Although she has had her Christmas cards mailed from there for the past two years, Soprano Lily Pons visited Lilypons last week for the first time, was photographed trilling at its water lilies...
...European nation with the largest peacetime army today, reputedly 1,300,000, is (1 France, 2 Germany, 3 Italy, 4 Russia, 5 England...