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When he reforms, no one reforms more violently than the penitent rake. Prime bad boy of U. S. industry, in the eyes of the public, Congress and Federal Trade Commission, has been the electric light & power business. Three years ago the Trade Commission focused attention on the vigorous propaganda work which the National Electric Light Association, controlled by disgraced Samuel Insull, was carrying on in schools and colleges (TIME, Aug. 31, 1931). Later the Insull crash threw into bold relief such practices as the looting of operating companies by holding companies, the publication of misleading financial statements and unscrupulous lobbying...
...moves among us, the little hatchet up her sleeve. When the steins are sliding again over the shining counter, and the White Horse chorus rises once more from Jake's on 43rd St., the old defenders can leap into action with a new war-cry: "We have Scotched the rake, not killed him." But if America's women hood perversely refuse to take the legalized cocktail with a dash of bitters, what remains for Mrs. Peabody? She can hardly be expected to find Florida still safe for the hundred percenter and the chocolate parfait, since Mr. Capone and his boys...
...contrary it is a stale and feeble homily, tepidly concerned with what passes for young love in a minor U. S. city. Nancy Carroll is a bank clerk and the town's prettiest girl. She is so popular that the gossips wag their tongues. When a young rake entertains her at his parties, it is taken for granted that he and she are misbehaving. More becomingly dressed than in Scarlet Dawn, Miss Carroll plays her stupid role ingratiatingly; Cary Grant is a new leading man who has the qualifications for an illustrious career. He acts with assurance, enunciates clearly...
...would appear that boudoir farce has not been dead all these years, just dormant, for the curtain which rises on Playwright Kottow's show discloses right spang in the middle of the stage a fine big bed. Soon a whole set of theatrical tintypes begin to appear: the rake who has promised to disdain his innocent little bride until his mistress gives him permission, a sexy mother-in-law, an officious low comedy father-in-law. To the very evident amusement of its spectators and the disgust of Manhattan critics, the show's dull bawdry continues until innocence...
...Victoria, B. C.. Perkins Observatory's 69-in. at Delaware, Ohio. Near Bloemfontein, South Africa Harvard owns a 60-incher. The Harvard observatories at Bloemfontein and Harvard (the town) are practically equidistant from the equator, positions which give Harvard well-nigh perfect opportunity to rake the heavens and amplify patient Dr. Annie Jump Cannon's stupendous catalog of the stars (more than 225,000 spectra already...