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Last week a carnival of full-blown pink blossoms danced on the prosaic financial pages of daily newspapers. The item was a small one in the daily grist of modernism, one more merger in a merging world. It was announced that Carnation Milk Products Co., whose head office is at Oconomowoc, Wis., whose common shares (435,440 of $25 par) sell at about $48 on the New York Curb, had arranged to acquire Albers Bros. Milling Co. of Oregon. Two and one-half shares of Carnation common stock were offered for each share of Albers preferred, two shares of Carnation...
...Prosaic businessmen not raised on canned milk but alive to its possibilities, reflected that in none of the three great and growing new Food Trusts is yet included an artificial milk product Undoubtedly there will some day be a place for Carnation products or their peers in the following: General Foods (makers...
...against his own country. Capt. Jaroslaf Falout, Czechoslovak general staff officer, carelessly left a suitcase in the cabin of a Prague-Berlin airplane. The contents of the suitcase were so interesting that he was immediately arrested, charged with being a German agent, charged also with the more lucrative, more prosaic crime of forging officers' leave permits...
That the Barebones Parliament was so called "with due regard to the original metaphor" is almost too delightful and original a theory to be spoiled by the prosaic recital of fact. Still, as everyone even slightly acquainted with English history should know, it was named after a member for the city of London, a puritan with the puritanical name of Praise-God Barebones. His brother, by the way, bore the still more astounding name of "If-Christ-had-not-come- thou-wouldst-have-been-damned Barebones...
...Constant Nymph (British). This silent adaptation of Margaret Kennedy's novel has faults which no U. S. producer would have allowed. The lighting is bad; the direction is prosaic; the photography is dull except for some fine shots of the Austrian Tyrol; the actors are obviously actors; the subtitles are verbose. It suffers also the phrases of incontinuity inevitable in a picture made from a long and not particularly compact book. But none of these flaws is important. What was good in the story is alive in the film too?the emotion of something wild beating against influences arranged...