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...Seventeen of the canvases relate the visual majesty of 17 Toledo industries. In them rude men ladle out molten metal, neat girls direct bottle-filling machinery, smoke stacks smoke, vast iron wheels whir, newspapers flutter on the city, crowds walk in the rain before the shops, fantastic masses of machinery move. Two additional canvases show Toledo of today?neat, smoking, moving; Toledo of the future?a high, angled sky line rivaling that of Manhattan. The represented industries...
...only regret is that I cannot stay longer. It was difficult to get away. His Majesty was good enough to let me get out of the country for this visit and the time of my stay has been stretched to seventeen days...
Died. Gregory Kelly, 32, actor (Seventeen, Clarence, The Butter & Egg Man), husband of Ruth Gordon, actress, now playing in Saturday's Children; of heart disease, after a six months' illness; in Manhattan...
Madame X. Seventeen years ago this drama was seen through tears, to the accompaniment of sniffles. Even today, strong men in the audience rise quickly after the last curtain to pull their hats down over their faces. Sophisticated younger people seem to be unaffected, probably critical of the necessity, on the part of a young lady who has deserted her husband, of going straight to harlotry and ether. This the heroine does, returning to France to see her boy whom she left 20 years ago. To save his reputation, she commits murder. The boy is assigned to defend...
...Seventeen women and four men flayed Stanley Bloodgood...