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This din Kansas' irrepressible William Allen White likened in London to a throb of "Moley, Moley, Moley, Lord God Almighty." While the New York Times dubbed Almighty Moley a "Professor ex Machina," the wonder of his rise was neatly satirized by scathing Frank R. Kent in the Baltimore Sun: "It must, when he tucks himself in bed at night . . . seem to him like a dream. Sometimes he must ask himself: Is it real-am I Moley?' Less than a year ago, Dr. Moley was an obscure professor at Columbia University. . . . Previously he had been an instructor...
...wife (Myrna Loy) and mistress (Greta Nissen); an aged lens-grinder (Jean Hersholt), using all his savings on a holiday for himself and daughter (Lois Moran); a gang of international rogues; and another rogue (Edmund Lowe) who combines the faculties of Robin Hood, Don Quixote and deus ex machina. He forms a liking for the banker's wife, causes her husband to desert his mistress...
...Nature's aid in recent years, however, has come a deus ex machina: U. S. capital and U. S. industrial methods in the persons of the four potent Brothers Guggenheim. Originally focused on Chile by copper, their gaze wandered in 1924 to nitrates. Their key company, Anglo- Chilean Consolidated Nitrate Corp., has bulked larger and larger in the industry. Last fall it clinched its leadership by buying control of Lautaro Nitrate Co. Ltd., biggest producer of Chilean nitrate. Even before that, however, the Guggenheims had started their Oficina Maria Elena Plant working in 1926 with the epochal Guggenheim Process...
...When. Long ago it became obvious that the Mayor of New York City, James John Walker, was one of the required ingredients of any Manhattan musical show. Usually, as impersonated by one of his many imitators, the Mayor would appear in the last act, a deus ex machina, to solve the transitory problems of the plot. When he attended the show there would be a bridling invitation from the management and the dignitary would clamber readily from his seat in the front row to be himself upon the stage. The producers of Say When had more ambitious plans...
...somebody to button them for him; that he always patronizes the same tailor because that tailor wears exactly his size clothing. Mr. Schwab will return to England in April to receive the Bessemer medal* from the British Industrial and Steel Institute. Will H. Hays, famed deus ex machina of the U. S. cinema industry, took his waspy, wide-eared self aboard the Leviathan, last week, and sailed for France. He was not fleeing from further Senate questioning as to his onetime stewardships of Republican campaign funds (TIME, March 12 et seq.). He went to dicker with the newly created French...