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...afraid to be in Cuba last week were numerous merrymaking socialites, among them Mr. & Mrs. Irénée du Pont of Wilmington, Del., Prince & Princess Tokugawa of Japan, Princess Alexandra-Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, Bishop James E. Freeman of Washington and U. S. Ambassador Harry F. Guggenheim, whose dinner-party-of-the week was lavish...
Inscription: Pius XI Pont. Max. Anno...
Fourth most illiterate of the United States is Alabama; 16.1% of its total population (2,573,000) can neither read nor write.* Alabama education has had no great patron like Delaware's Pierre Samuel du Pont or New England's Edward Stephen Harkness. Last week, however, it was revealed that Alabama would get some $7,500,000 worth of brand new boys' schools, bequest of the late Harvey G. Woodward, Birmingham real estate and iron man who died last November...
...Radio-Keith-Orpheum, lusty and successful young cinema company sponsored by great Radio Corp. of America, bought "certain assets" of the Pathe company. These assets included the crowing cock trademark, the three actresses, the library. They did not include the 49% interest which Pathe holds in the profitable Du Pont-Pathe Film Manufacturing Corp. The merger will do away with an awkward contract under which Radio-Keith-Orpheum houses had to play a certain number of Pathe | pictures yearly. Each company will keep on making and distributing its own pictures...
...disappearance. The oldest Eskimo living nearby could not remember having seen or heard of the lost tribe. Besides excavating, Archeologist Bird helped Naturalist Whitney shoot walrus for the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, capture two musk oxen for Robert Ruliph Morgan Carpenter, vice president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours...