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Contrary to alarmist reports, picturing the Casino as well nigh bankrupt by competition from newer, smarter gambling places, the year-end report released last week showed profits to the Casino Company of 122,000,000 francs...
...acting. Not since 1913 has Cinemactress Gish been on Broadway. At that time she inhabited the same boarding house as Cinemactress Mary Pickford, who got her a small part in David Belasco's A Good Little Devil. Soon afterward David Wark Griffith took her in charge, well-nigh beatified her during the next 15 years as the virginal, wide-eyed heroine of The Birth of a Nation, Broken Blossoms, Way Down East, The White Sister, et al. Soon to be seen is her first audible cinema, One Romantic Night, adapted from Playwright Ferenc Molnar's The Swan...
...this principle that the Club should produce no play ever before acted upon the American stage it is hard to determine, but it is unfortunately quite easy to see the unfortunate results which have attended this policy during the last few years. It has been difficult, in fact well nigh impossible, to secure from year to year plays of merit which are not beyond the powers of the Club to present or beyond the powers of the audience to understand...
Perhaps the only indefinite section of the questionnaire is that in which the voter may conceal various sins from dislike of alcoholic beverages to difficulty in striking a bargain with the local bootleggers under the guise of "Personal Taste". Such a situation is will nigh unavoidable and it is of secondary importance anyway. The major virtue of the ballot lies into its adaptability to various types of colleges, a fact illustrated by the adoption of its essential simplicity by many of the newspapers cooperating in the conducting of polls elsewhere...
Significance. Plainly these parallel statements indicate well-nigh complete agreement between Britain and the U. S. A two-power treaty could have been signed any day last week. But the great issue of whether France will concede parity to Italy ?as Britain has to the U. S.?remained unsettled, with both parties snarling, and with the French especially angry because their P. T. F. (Proposition Transactionelle Franqaise) or French Basis for Bargaining had been simply ignored by Statesman Stimson, and Statesman MacDonald had snubbed (see Cruisers above) the Tardieu proposal for limitation by "global tonnage...