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...held a story conference to choose a feature subject. The vogue for clean pictures, the necessity for glamorous costumes and the current popularity of Victorian classics made a dramatic version of William Makepeace Thackeray's Vanity Fair appear to be ideal. For a director the Whitneys chose Lowell Sherman. For a star they chose Miriam Hopkins. Becky Sharp went into production almost a year ago. By last week, it had survived a series of unprecedented mishaps...
...Long Distance Building of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in Manhattan, President Walter Sherman Gifford picked up a receiver, asked to speak to Vice President Theodore Gazlay Miller. Fifty feet away in another office sat Vice President Miller. But the operator plugged President Gifford in on Dixon, Calif. There a short-wave radio transmitter amplified his voice some millions of times, "sprayed" it over the Pacific. At Java a Dutch station picked up the Gifford voice, blew it up another billion times, broadcast it on to Amsterdam. Under the North Sea it went by cable to London, then Rugby. Sprayed overseas...
...opinion early in the War (September, 1914): "May Heaven protect the Vaterland from contamination and give the German people a chance! To hell with the Hohenzollerns and the Hapsburgs!" From this sentiment to the feeling that all Germans were barbarians was an easy step. Though U. S. General Sherman had coined the phrase, the U. S. never grasped the fact that war is hell, thought (under advice) the Germans must be hellions. "Innumerable sensible Americans were . . . genuinely, seriously convinced that Germans were a peculiarly fiendish and brutal race, quite beyond the pale oi ordinary humankind...
...addition to the regular orchestra, a singing trie will be featured, and also lovely Muriel Sherman, who is positively guaranteed to please the chilliest male...
...livelier fashion. Armed with a $750,000 appropriation, the Commission is already at work on an investigation of the telephone industry for the benefit of the U. S. Senate, which discovered to its amazement that A. T. & T. had never been put under the Congressional microscope. President Walter Sherman Gifford says there are no skeletons in his closets, and last week at the annual A. T. & T. meeting in Manhattan he confined his remarks to routine business...