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...reason for the shut-down was stated to be the abnormal present costs of production, due to excessive salaries paid to " film stars" and directors. According to Marcus Loew, head of Metro Pictures Corporation and of the Loew Theatre Circuit, this step is only a beginning of a general deflation of the cinema business; he added: " The cost of making pictures has got away from...
...Jacks prints in this Summer issue an article on The Sainthood of Marcus Aurelius, which is unstoicly ecstatic; a reconciliation of Judaism to European culture; a discussion of Miracle in the Old Testament; Ita de Trinitate Sentiat, which means that one is a trinitarian because one feels it; an article showing that Theologue Butler has not grown stale; contributions by Prof. Estlin Carpenter and Sir Oliver Lodge...
...attitude shown by these letters is by no means universal among Negroes. Some members of his own race freely condemned the pugilist Johnson for marrying a " white." It was also one of the planks in the platform of the once popular Marcus Garvey, now convicted of fraud, that Negroes should not contract mixed marriages...
...cabins, specially built for the occasion, and one correspondent recorded that the Indians employed were released from jail where they had been imprisoned for violating the Volstead Act. There the President delivered an address on the opening of the Oregon Trail, telling the dramatic story of the missionary, Marcus Whitman, and adding, "If it isn't true, it ought...
...Provisional President of Africa, Marcus Garvey, convicted of using the mails to defraud in promotion of the Black Star Line, is in jail and appears likely to remain there for some time at least. Judge Mack of the Federal Court in New York gave him the maximum sentence-five years in jail and $1,000 fine. Mr. Garvey was also refused bail pending his appeal for a retrial...