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...Kick Off," the present attraction at the Paramount theatre is a relief to football fans who have been nauseated by the prevailing type of gridiron films, because it combines a credible plot with a more than vivid sketch of a real football game. The crowd, the mud--oh, that mud--and the boisterous enthusiasm contribute to climax the picture with a thrill. One might well offer the management of the theatre that, in order to provide atmosphere it put its renowned cooling system into operation and require the patrons to wear their overcoats...
...John Reeves Ellerman, 71, shipping tycoon, reputed possessor of Great Britain's largest fortune (circa $140,000,000); in Dieppe, France. To his vast shipping enterprises he added real estate and publishing, at one time owned a string of newspapers and smartcharts, including London's Sphere, Sketch, Tatler. Hardly more than a name to the average Briton, he shunned publicity and public places, shooed away photographers, lived in a simplicity suggesting stinginess, occupied but one inch of space in Who's Who. He stealthily gave fat sums to charity, was irked when newshawks got wind...
...frankly Communistic picture by Rivera, notably a fresco Frozen Assets, showing starving men, idle mills. In early March, one of Rockefeller Center's architects, Raymond Hood, went to Detroit where Rivera was finishing his frescoes for the Detroit Institute of Arts. He approved Rivera's big, colored sketch for Rockefeller Center...
...sketch showed a central figure who looked like a blond Russian (eventually posed by Tammany Boss John Francis Curry's grandnephew Hugh Jr., 22) under a big television machine which projected on the rest of the design the worker's choices. These were: marching soldiers with gas-masked heads like wasps; Communists trooping in Moscow's Red Square; a group of unemployed rioting under hard-jawed mounted police; socialite bridge-players and fox-trotters; women exercising; students; a worker, a student and an unemployed worker listening to a Leader. Through the composition criss-crossed two spurs, showing...
...represented his country with Miss Mayer in 1932; Hans & Julius Thomson and H. Halberstadt (1928 Olympic team members) ; Stephanie Stern, German woman foils champion in 1926, U. S. National champion in 1927.-ED. Hon. Mention Sirs: ... I cannot resist a word of praise for the Hearst biographical sketch in the May i issue of TIME...