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...University of Texas, was winner of the Intercollegiate Singles Championship, by defeating in the final round Gregory Mangin, of Georgetown University, 2-6, 3-6, 6-4, 6-2, 6-2. The Intercollegiate Doubles Championship was won by Benjamin Gorchakoff and Arthur Kussman, of Occidental College, who defeated Emmet Pare and Mangin, of Georgetown, 5-7, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4 in the final round...
CENSORED: THE PRIVATE LIFE OF THE MOVIES?Morris Ernst & Pare Lorentz? Cape & Smith...
Authors Morris Ernst & Pare Lorentz here put forth a vigorous polemic against the present apparatus of cinema censorship. Say they: though the National Board of Review does not officially censor, merely "suggests" changes, recommends certain cinemas, withholds recom- mendation from others, in practice it amounts to a federal censorship board. Official state censorship boards exist in six states: New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Kansas, Virginia, Ohio; the Pennsylvania board is the most severe, the Virginia most lenient...
...executive secretary is Mrs. Mary L. Jobe Akeley, F. R. G. S., second wife and widow of Carl Akeley, author of Carl Akeley's Africa, a fascinating chronicle. Chapter 19 of this volume contains a full discussion of the origin and location, flora and fauna, of the Pare National Albert...
Half a million sturdy Lancashire cotton folk had ceased to spin and weave. Their grievance was specific, precisely stated. The mill owners had announced a 12˝% wage cut. That would pare the average wage of each male Lancashire breadwinner from a pitiful 47 shillings ($11.08) weekly to a scandalous 41 shillings ($9.84). Sisters, wives and mothers, long since driven by necessity to eke out the family income by working in the mills, would get not 30 shillings ($7.20) but 27 shillings ($6.48), for a week's skilled labor with trained and nimble fingers...