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...almost homicidal crushes on the I. R. T. at rush hours. Why, wondered economists, would it not be to the city's and the I. R. T.'s mutual advantage to allow more than one fare, keeping a 5-cent minimum? The London Underground and the Paris Metro and Nord-Sud sell tickets of various classes. Why not have 10-cent or even 25-cent turnstiles for thousands of riders who would pay to escape the cattle-like stampede? The extra revenue would provide extra cars to accommodate the 5-centers. Why not subway Pullmans...
...Montana, the West Coast circuit owned 250 theatres. In Wisconsin was the Saxe circuit with 50 houses, and in Chicago the Ascher circuit's seven. Their proper ties combined were worth $100,000,000. The Paramount -Famous -Lasky group wanted them, as did the First National and the Metro-Goldwyn. Mr. Fox bid highest, won. With more than 300 houses in his circuit he has assured display for the films his three California studios produce. Only Paramount - Famous -Lasky. who control Publix Theatres, outstring him in the cinema field...
There is no adequate reason why any one should undertake to refute the Yale Weekly's article. Those who are members or graduates of the University will realize that as a faithful picture of Harvard life it is even funnier than Metro-Goldwyn's tribute. And those who are neither members nor graduates nor friends will derive extraordinary delight from the Macfadden-like revelations of this particular example of "intrinsic vigor and communal health...
Married. Norma Shearer, 22, famed cinemactress; to Irving Grant Thalberg, 26, executive director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; in Hollywood. The ceremony was prolonged by the bride's unfamiliarity with responses in the Hebrew...
Entering a Metropolitan subway car last week Henri Decharbogne, famed Paris newspaperman, member of the Legion of Honor, was bumped on the head by a closing door, killed. A great cry of protest against the danger of subway doors went up. "Metro" officials, calm, ignored it; said the doors were modeled on those in use in the U. S. for years...