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...artist ever sold so many pictures. A rapid draughtsman, he painted the same scene over & over again. In Kansas City a department store sold 6,000 original Kays by advertising OIL PAINTINGS BARGAIN PRICE $2.98. Before he died he left a note: "Cremate my body and scatter the ashes to the four winds of heaven. Everything is gone. I have 15? left." ¶Robert Spencer, able portraitist, 1928 judge of the Carnegie Institute International Exhibition at Pittsburgh, blew out his brains last week at New Hope, Pa., crazed by overwork and worry...
...Arthur Hopkins produced in Manhattan 14 years ago, will have an immoral influence, since it shows extravagance rewarded and makes insobriety seem an Arcadian adventure. Nonetheless, it is hilariously funny comedy of a sort rarely seen in cinema. It tells a story in which the chief characters are a scatter-brained girl (Jeannette MacDonald), her husband, who is a rowdy millionaire from Wyoming (Victor McLaglen), another millionaire who remains intoxicated (Roland Young), and the second millionaire's butler. The two millionaires are engaged in a wholly ridiculous struggle for 50 shares of valuable stock. The fact that the story...
June Moon (Paramount). Using the slight story of a scatter-brained youth who leaves Schenectady to write popular song lyrics in Manhattan, June Moon builds a satire on song writers and their lady friends, their bons mots and their ridiculous but engaging selfimportance. The scatter-brained youth meets a girl on the train who falls in love with him. He re-turns to her after adventures in Tin Pan Alley. These include advances made by the cold-hearted mistress of a music pub- lisher, committing malapropisms which cause him to be the butt of Broadway tune-sharpers. Finally he gets...
...convinced that with a more desirable chapel the many men who now scatter in the churches throughout Boston and vicinity because they do not find enough at Appleton would feel drawn to the University chapel. It would lead the way for additions in the religious program. A proper and suitable base would be offered for a genuinely great man to be called to in order to fill the position of Dean of the Chapel or a similar office of religious leadership. Besides there will be appropriate arrangements for smaller services, so there could be evening ones as well as morning...
...Scatter his enemies...