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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Supreme Court, in deciding a case from Pittsburgh, broadened the National Prohibition Act to include within its realm of illegality all the apparatus and paraphernalia of brewing, distilling and distributing. "Under the afflatus of the 18th Amendment" the court held that the U. S. could seize barrels, bottles, corks, labels, cartons, etc., etc. when they were put on sale to be used in connection with illicit liquor...
Since his entry into the realm of light and "situation" comedy Mr. Dix is a much improved actor over the Dix of racing car melodramas. Tinged with a bit of Shavian deviltry the play depicts the plight of an electrician who for the sum of a few thousand dollars is willing to lower himself and become a gentleman. For some reason, and, she is fairly pleasant, he gets all mixed up in his singleness of purpose. The story ends happily, with Mr. Dix still an electrician. The picture is an amusing satire on the Ward McAllister type...
Reports of a new tenth magnitude comet were received Saturday from the observatory at Hamburg, Germany by the authorities of the Harvard Observatory. Discovered by the astronomers Schwassmann and Wackmam, this newest addition to the realm of celestial spheres has a tail two degrees in length...
Richard Dix's revival of "Seven Keys to Baldpate" is the other entertainment. Since Mr. Dix has deserted the manly American racing-car type of picture, and entered the realm of situation comeday, he is of much more value as a source of entertainment. While not nearly approaching the cleverness of his latest picture, "Lovin' the Ladies", the "Seven Keys to Baldpate" is sufficiently worthwhile. Counting the news-reel, the University's present bill is the best-balanced in several months...
...Prince of Wales's wing in Alexandra Military Hospital at Westminster. While there she made avery special request. Soon the hospital's best, most splendiferous and highest-powered microscope was trained on a fresh and potent germ culture. Placing her eye as directed, the Queen squinted into a microscopic realm where savagery holds lawless sway, stood face to face with the hungry microbes of MALARIA...