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...Grateful indeed in these slack times are most U. S. businessmen to receive orders from Dictator Stalin's agents. Newsorgans which report every new contract to build up the Red State begin with the Wall Street Journal and by no means end with the Boston Herald, the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger, the Stockton (Calif.) Independent...
Publisher Victor Henry Hanson of the Birmingham News, Ledger and Age-Herald ... Litt.D...
...reporters a letter he had just received from Mrs. Robert L. Dodge, on whom U. S. Customs men imposed the record penalty of all time $213,286 (TIME, May 12). Mrs. Dodge complained, said M. Poiret, that the Customs officials showed her photostatic copies of pages from the Poiret ledger, thus forcing her to agree with their view that she had bought a great many Poiret gowns she had no recollection of buying. If rich, highly strung clients cannot depend on their dressmakers to guard them from such humiliating mistakes, argued Paris editors last week; if the U. S. Treasury...
...notes of music. There are deep romantic backgrounds of Maxfield Parrish blue, ballets in the warmest, though slightly blurred, pastel tints yet achieved in technicolor. There are angled and overhead shots and hundreds of smart camera tricks. The whole is a musical show taking its continuity from a huge ledger called Paul Whiteman's Scrap Book. Charles Irwin, master of ceremonies, turns the pages; each page is an act in the revue and most of the acts are boring. Director Anderson has made the picture a vehicle for glorifying stagecraft instead of using stagecraft to sharpen entertainment. Actually...
Chit-Chat. In hallways and hotelrooms outside the meetings, an outstanding subject for chit-chat was a circulation fight last fortnight between the Philadelphia Record and the Curtis-Martin papers (Public Ledger, Evening Ledger, Inquirer). An article by the Record had told the story thus...