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...have a look, said they. They formed a Laymen's Foreign Missions Inquiry, backed largely by John Davison Rockefeller Jr. To head the inquiry two years ago they chose, an engineer -President Albert Lyon Scott of Lockwood Greene Engineers Inc. (industrial specialists), a Brown graduate (1900), minister's son, onetime Baptist deacon and Bible class teacher. Year ago Engineer Scott went to the Orient with an Appraisal Commission headed by Harvard Professor of Philosophy William Ernest Hocking. The Commission roved about, returned last July. Last week Engineer Scott began making public the report of the inquiry, which will...
...Check Girl (Fox) sets out as a fable of true love in Manhattan between a hat check girl (Sally Eilers) and a millionaire's son (Ben Lyon). Finding this theme thin as well as improbable, it pads itself out with winter sports scenes, night club shows, the slimy trail of a blackmailing scandal-sheet editor, underworld ramifications, subway interludes. The unreality of the proceedings is heightened by the two leading players' conflicting ideas of what the picture is about. Ben Lyon tries ably to play it as light comedy. Sally Eilers, stiff and strained, registering emotion by twisting...
...story shows Sally Eilers declining to sell liquor for the bootlegging hat-check overlord as she consents at his request to go to a playboy's party. Irritably chaste, she accepts the use of an empty apartment where the returning owner (Ben Lyon) finds her in bed. True love is instantaneous. Menaces appear in the persons of the hat-check overlord who "frames" her, and the scandal sheet editor who is part of her past. They operate to defer the marriage until the editor is found dead and Ben Lyon is arrested for the murder. When this mistake...
...taxi driver took them to the Gare de Lyon. They caught the midnight express for Italy. Early the next day they were across the border, whizzing through mountains among which run great electric power lines. Ivar Kreuger passed through that countryside many times on his trips to Rome for secret transactions. Alfred Lowenstein played financial chess writh Italian power projects until he plunged from an airplane into the English Channel...
Down from Canada 26 years ago marched a thick-wristed, heavyset golfer named George S. Lyon to make a bid for the U. S. amateur championship. He was stopped in the finals by Eben Byers, who died last spring of radium-water poisoning (TIME, April 11). That was the nearest Canada ever came to the title until last week when Charles Ross Somerville of London, Ont. emerged at the head of a field of 154 starters at Five Farms near Baltimore. After the first round of match play, Robert Tyre Jones Jr., an observer in a gallery...