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...Snip-snip-snip-snip. Herbert Hoover was cutting up into paragraphs a rough draft of a campaign speech. His scissors made the only sound in the quiet of the Lincoln Study. Over a large table he spread out his cuttings. He picked up a paragraph on balancing the Budget and a paragraph on Democratic extravagance, pinned them together. Likewise joined were paragraphs on New Zealand butter and tariff protection, on Democratic campaign tactics and a newspaper clipping of 50 years ago. Thus the separate paragraphs were being woven together into an oratorical tapestry when an aide knocked on the study...
...tinkerer. Four years ago Tinkerer Frank Powers, to cheapen production costs in the Powers plants, which use thousands of photographs and rods of photographic printing paper, mechanized photography. He perfected a process of making photographic paper in long rolls similar to wrapping paper, invented a device to snip off lengths of paper as they were exposed, send them to a developing tank. A friend of the Brothers Powers is Henry Collier Wright, president of the Queensboro Tuberculosis Association. Mr. Wright last year heard Dr. Jay Arthur Myers of the University of Minnesota medical school declare that If every case...
...side of the relationship, however, and presently appears in scenes of tragic squajor. An acute apondectomy is the event that brings her to the young doctor's hospital where he is the one who must operate. It is his first operation and with bated breath we watch him snip the offending organs with shiny instruments. As soon as the ether wears off, love is suitably rekindled...
After a decent period of mourning, His Majesty George V had a new dog last week. Like its predecessor, it is a lively, ginger-colored Cairn terrier. Snip, the previous Cairn, was an affectionate beast who whimpered outside the royal bedroom all the time King George lay gravely ill three years ago, and accompanied His Majesty to almost everything except the state openings of Parliament. Snip died in April. Mourned by the royal household and the nation, he was buried in Sandringham by the side of Edward VII's dog Caesar who had the distinction of preceding the Kaiser...
Ladies of the Big House (Paramount). Almost every program picture contains at least one new idea. In this one the idea is a jail break by women, executed in rough & ready fashion. One prisoner secretes a pair of wire clippers under her pillow. The heroine (Sylvia Sidney) helps her snip at a fence which separates the prison yard from a bay. The jailbreak fails, but since Sylvia Sidney is unjustly imprisoned she gets out before the picture ends. The plot framework which surrounds the prison scenes is diverting and well constructed, but basically improbable. It has to do with...