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...brains behind the shabby desk in Grosvenor Street were really capable of supplying them with serious competition for the world cinema markets. Last week they knew the answer. Things to Come may or may not entrance U. S. cinemaddicts but it is likely to make bigwigs in Hollywood scratch their heads about a future much more immediate than...
There are, however, a number of good men who will be called on to carry the brunt of the Andover onslaught. First is Bob Gammons in the dash who has bested the endeavors of two Varsity runners in the Handicap Meet when all men were running from scratch. He will be ably seconded by Fred Ulen, the son of the swimming coach...
...summary: 35 1b. weight handicap --Won by Scars, 38 ft. 1 3/4 in. (handicap 11 ft.); second, MacFarlane, 33 ft. 1 1/2 in. (Handicap 16 ft.); third, Cahners, 48 ft. 5 1/4 in. (scratch...
...National Broadcasting Co., had picked to reveal Napoleon's character. Choosing swiftly between typography and taste, the Higher Up ordered the presses stopped at once. All copies of the Book Review already printed were destroyed. Since it was too late for costly re-plating, printers were ordered to scratch out the offending line of type with a chisel, smudge over the offending illustration with...
...year-old Max Factor has been a cosmetician since at 13 he left a Russian synagog school to become an apprentice make-up boy in a traveling opera troupe. He built a cosmetics factory in Russia, exhibited in the 1904 St. Louis Exposition, lost his money, started again from scratch in Los Angeles shortly afterward. Friendly, willing in the pioneer days of the cinema to deliver personally a 50? stick of grease paint, Factor established his business on the firm basis of getting exclusive endorsements for his products. Mabel Normand was once his No. 1 endorser. Today nearly every important...