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West and North-Those pale Medusas of the Upper
...Empire State Building, the U.S. amateur photographer pursues his hobby. His camera's combined clicks (he is taking nearly 2 billion pictures this year) would drown the loudest thunder, and the combined light from his flashbulbs (he is using 500 million) would make a major planet pale. The sun to him is chiefly a source of light that often calls for a yellow filter, and the moon merely an object which it is hard to photograph without a tripod: he approaches the highest peaks through a telephoto lens, scans new horizons through his range finder-and if he ever...
...Recently, he has been reduced to attacking books and reports, and what few persons he has shot at have been in less glamorous places, like the Government Printing Office. The harder up he has been for material, the more willing he has been to extend his investigations beyond the pale of his committee's Constitutional function...
Recent months have proved that a movie in three dimensions does not necessarily have depth; A Lion is in the Streets demonstrates that a picture in Technicolor is not necessarily colorful. In fact, in every respect bur one, this film is drab and pale. The exception is James Cagney's portrayal of Hank Martin, the ambitious backwoods peddler who almost "lynched a whole state." Against the rest of the film, Martin stands out like a Lutree potrait superimposed on a black-and-white pencil sketch...
...last tram. He is six years old. ¶ Victorita is 17 and well built. The boy she loves has TB and lies in bed all day long. He warns her not to kiss him or she may catch his disease, but she kisses him anyway. One day, pale and haggard, she tells him that he can be cured with medicine and plenty of food. Her voice thick, she adds, "A young girl is always worth money . . . If it means that you get well again, I'll go with the first rich man who wants me as a mistress...