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...Archer '30, soloist, and Robert Reinhart '20, prestidigitator and magician. A short dance at the Theatre was soon deserted for the more festive debutante ball at the Genesee Valley Club where breakfast was served at 5.30 o'clock for the remaining guests. The special cars left for Buffalo and Niagara Falls at 6.28 o'clock...
...Shredded Wheat had progressed from a Nebraska hotel to a Worcester factory; the next step was the move to Niagara Falls. This transition resulted from the enterprise of William B. Rankine, who had built power houses on the Niagara River but had no factories to utilize the power of the Falls. Mr. Rankine visited Mr. Perky, persuaded him to move to Niagara. Here Mr. Perky built a two million dollar plant, which, however, got him into financial difficulties. Thereupon Mr. Rankine interested various capitalists from New York City, Buffalo and Niagara Falls in the formation of a ten million dollar...
...Cumberland Falls had another ramification that interested the Senate. Although locally called "the Niagara of the South," the falls are not Kentucky's or the South's greatest.*But they are famed scenically. And wealthy T. Coleman du Pont, whose health obliged him to resign last week as a Senator from Delaware, has long been seeking to buy the site and present it to his native Kentucky as a 2,200-acre state park. The Insull interests have, through a contract which was unpublished till last week, enlisted the aid of the present Republican administration in Kentucky...
...proposed by the Insull interests, they would yield only 40,000 horsepower. Tallulah Falls on the Tallulah River in Georgia yield 108,000. Few natural waterfalls in the U. S. have been developed for waterpower. Usually dams are found more convenient and efficient. Outstanding natural waterfalls now exploited are Niagara (1,535,000 h. p.); the Great Falls of the Missouri River in Montana (60,000 h. p.); Thompson Falls at Clark's Fork Montana River, Mont. (35,000 h. p.); St. Croix Falls on the Mississippi in Wisconsin (35,000 h. p.); Snoqualmie Falls, Wash...
...Street Angel, were invited Rome's most scintillant critics, most potent cinema tycoons. When an unsalubrious and perhaps unrecognizable Naples flickered before their eyes, they whistled and hissed in protest. One critic shouted "Only the fact that we are guests prevents this theatre from being inundated under a Niagara of violent indignation." The theatre therefore was saved but the Board of Censors was doomed a few hours hence...