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Conway College lies a few hours west of Chicago. It is a struggling little plantation of bay and laurel choking in the broad fields of alien corn. It was inherited by Harry Conway (James Rennie), and he and his wife (Lily Cahill) are rich and tolerant enough to let it flourish-within certain limits. Its faculty is a representative cross-cut of indigenous academic life. There are a prig and a politician. Small, timid Professor Stockton (E. J. Ballantine) has found that pistol practice and an occasional mild laxative keep his nerve up. Another professor, blessedly resigned, loves to teach...
...Janeiro's ancient metropolitan Cathedral, hung with black velvet and flickering with candlelight, the body lay in a huge sarcophagus. In the murk of the nave, 2,000 Brazilians per hour filed slowly past day & night. The day of the funeral was a national holiday. Laurel leaves were strewn solidly on the Avenida Rio Branca for 720 ft., the distance of the hero's first flight. Artillery sounded the body into the grave, a five-minute Brazil-wide silence followed. Sea & land planes flew over in squadrons. At the grave was a great monument topped by a winged...
Visitors to the Animal War Dispensary of the Royal S. P. C. A., opened last month in London by Frances Countess of Warwick, may now observe an heroic plaque on its façade. A central angelic figure, bearing laurel wreaths, stands waiting with wings and arms outspread. Toward it in stone-carved bas relief, memorializing the sacrifice of their kind, march the dumb messengers and burden-bearers of War-horses, oxen, dogs, pigeons, camels, an elephant, an ass-reminders that in the World War died 269,000 British horses & mules, 22,812 British camels, 628 British bullocks; dogs, pigeons...
University-"Bring 'em Back Alive." An excellent jungle picture with all the African noises made in a New York studio. Also "Crooner," Laurel and Hardy feature...
...American Derby and the Arlington Park Classic, both on Morton L. Schwartz's Gusto, and the Spinaway Stakes with Easy Day. Jockey Coucci, more than Mills, is noted for spectacular finishes. Sometimes they are too spectacular, like one last fortnight which caused Laurel, Md. officials to suspend him for "taking a tow"-grabbing the saddlecloth of a horse going past him. Last week Jockey Coucci was reinstated. He quickly set about improving his percentage of winners-19 for the season to Mills's 22-by bringing Mrs. Isabelle Dodge Sloan's Snap Back home...