Word: showings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...dialog than Betty Compson's repetitive "Ah, Jerry," and Barthelmess's "All right, baby." Best shot: close-up of convicts at attention. Like many a handsome, athletic young man who has the air of being an actor in spite of himself, Richard Barthelmess has been in the show business most of his life. His mother, Caroline Harris, played in Biograph pictures at the old Fort Lee (N. J.) studios...
...that the stomach has a rhythmic action of its own, with alternate periods of spasm or contraction, lasting a half-hour to an hour and one-half, with periods of rest be tween. Animals from the snail to man, and humans from prematurely born infants to the aged, all show the same phenomenon. It is not a nerve action. The motor nerves are not involved, although action of the sensitory nerves is needed before hunger can be felt. When the sugar content of the blood is low the spasms in the stomach are much greater than when the sugar content...
...Wyckoff had gradually cajoled him out of ownership of the Magazine of Wall Street which he founded in 1907 as the Ticker Magazine. This apparently was not the case. Mr. Wyckoff turned the management of the magazine over to Mrs. Wyckoff when he discovered that she was making it show a profit. In the early years she accepted stock instead of salary. In 1926 the Wyckoffs signed an agreement which severed their business relations, giving Mrs. Wyckoff complete control of the Magazine of Wall Street. Mr. Wyckoff received $500,000 in 7% bonds...
...Motor Boat Show at the Grand Central Palace, Manhattan, last week, went many a prospective purchaser, many an idle gazer, many and many a small boy. Not many hardy sea-dogs attended, because an outstanding feature of the modern motor boat is its tendency to incorporate as much as possible of the simplicity, ease of handling and shiny finish of the motor car. Motor boats are sold not to sailors but to motor car owners and their families. To build a boat that a landsman can operate-and that in most cases he never will operate out of sight...
Meteor. Most of the show's visitors halted their inspection tour at the exhibit of the Meteor Motor Car Co. of Piqua, Ohio, to look at the single Meteor model on exhibit. Persons acquainted with the Meteor Co., and with its president, Mau rice Wolfe, might have expected to see a hearse rather than a motor boat, for the Meteor Motor Car Co. is best known for its long production of medium-priced hearses, or, as they are known in mortuary circles, funeral cars...