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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between China and Japan, neither State ever being willing to let citizens of either country know what their betters are demanding or yielding. But Japanese demands are always intentionally drawn in a manner so loose that, if China accepts, her yielding can later be stretched to several times the length of a reasonable interpretation. The London Titties recently suggested that there might be some justice in Ambassador Kawagoe's reputed demand that "China must recognize the special position of Japan in North China" if only Foreign Minister General Chang could win a concession to his reputed counter demand that...
...evening last week to the roof of Hollywood's Knickerbocker Hotel. Searchlights on top of nearby cinema houses fingered the rosy sky over Hollywood Boulevard. On the hotel roof, ignoring a milling throng of spiritualists, magicians, newshawks, cameramen and gawpers, a plump, white-haired woman walked down a length of red plush carpet on the arm of a bearded man. Beatrice Wilhelmina Rahner Houdini and her business manager, Magician Edward Saint, seated themselves on thronelike chairs before a red-draped table. On the table lay a silver bell, a trumpet, a pair of handcuffs, a small shrine containing...
...theory that Indians' being made to bite the dust, three in a row, from a range of a mile and a half, is worth salvaging from the fifteen-minute parodies on the nickelodeon days and brought back to feature-length standing, "The Texas Rangers" sets out to curdle the blood in the grand old style. Free from this now-fangled nonsense about Indians' being human beings, at least four of the reels are devoted to shots of the atrocious savages' being shot down in fabulous quantities by plucky little bands of Rangers. Fred MacMurray is the unblenching avenger who fears...
Lastly, but of real significance, came the fall of the yellow journalists and the coup-de-grace of the myriad straw votes and polls. First in size and length of reach, William Randolph Hearst once more received the contemptous disdain of the people of the United States as his major candidates and platforms were universally junked. The myth of his political power, long a potent factor in American campaigns, was never more devastatingly exploded, for it proved as impotent and soiled as the man around whom it hovered. Besides the end of the Hearst hypothesis, the Literary Digest and Farm...
...tenth year, Albert Simmons at 44 has perfected a technique of photographing game birds in flight, especially ducks and geese, which is better than most men's technique with a gun. He uses a telephoto lens with a sight such that he can "shoot" at arm's length, as with a fowling piece. He has the eye of a killer to focus and centre his pictures perfectly. Printed. on soft paper his exposures lose some definition, but any experienced gunner will recognize Photographer Simmons' teal, duck and goose action close-ups as the result of shrewd...