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Anthony Adverse is a three-decker, picaresque-historical novel, crammed with enough people, action, scenery, philosophy, comedy, bloodshed, love and death to furnish a dozen books. Built to an old-fashioned design but modern specifications, it starts off like a Waverley Novel, soon gets beyond the purport of its traditional beginning. Like Tristram Shandy's, its hero makes a belated appearance, but when he does his fortunes hold the unwieldy tale together. In following him, however, the story loses track of some promising minor characters whose disappearance is disappointing, whose reappearance is sometimes anticlimactic. From France to Italy...
...that I have completely misconceived the purport of your article and have thus, naturally it would seem, entirely misconstrued its meaning...
Richard Arlen is one of the new actors in Hollywood today who, in our estimation, earns all he gets. We have liked him ever since he stood behind a chair in "Wings", just before going off to war, and said "Yes, mother," to a series of questions whose purport was "Now you won't forget to change your socks when you get your feet wet, will you?" He is refreshingly masculine without being a blatant personality boy. He creates an impression of hard-fisted strength coupled to the right amount of feeling without resorting to the Clark Gable sneer...
Sirs: In your issue of June 29 there appear on p. 8 what purport to be reproductions of pictures of the Chairmen of the three different groups of railroads . . . Messrs H. A. Scandrett, J. J. Pelley and myself. It so happens that the picture which purports to represent me is one of my friend, Mr. A. C. Needles, President, Norfolk & Western Railway Co. I call your attention to this error not that I think it makes a great deal of difference, or that I think the American Public is particularly interested in my physiognomy, but because of what I understand...
...taken by Standard Oil Co. of New York and one by Horizon Co., subsidiary of Silver Brook Anthracite Co. specially formed to operate the ship because the coal company's rules forbid its officers to fly. Last month the Navy ordered one for experiment (TIME, Feb. 9). Some purport to see in the autogiro the means of putting aviation on a new basis, viz, the long-dreamed of "flying for everybody." The autogiro can take off from a space no larger than 100 ft., land on a spot considerably smaller, practically anywhere...