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...Strand is president of the board of directors of Frontier Films, an organization dedicated to "the production of films that truthfully reflect the life and drama of contemporary America" and which made "The Wave" and "The Plough That Broke the Plains...
...Paul Strand, noted photographer, will speak on "The Modern Film" tonight at 7:45 and 9:45 o'clock is Cautabridgia Hall, under the auspices of the Helyoke Book Shop...
...couple who enjoy an earnest week-end together before getting married. Three weeks ago the New York State Board of Censors banned the movie. Last week, the Board of Regents rescinded the ban and Warner Bros., eager to capitalize on the publicity, hurried it simultaneously into Manhattan's Strand and Globe Theatres. Critics and audiences found it mildly sophisticated, mildly amusing...
Curious modern improvements await swimmers when they come in from the Park's 1,000-foot strand: automatic showers set off by photoelectric eyes; towel-less drying in warm air currents. A more immediate pleasure on opening day was afforded by about 5,000 square feet of interior murals done by WPA artists under the direction of many-minded Hilaire Hiler (pronounced Hillair Hyler), one of the wonder boys of modern decoration. A onetime saxophone player who drifted from the University of Pennsylvania to Berlin, from Berlin to Paris, Hiler fell to painting...
American League bigwigs, following in the four-year-old tracks of the National League, granted the Cleveland and Philadelphia clubs permission to play seven home games apiece under lights next year.* Both leagues compromised on a uniform ball for 1939: an American League (thinner) covering with National League (five strands instead of four) stitching-the one extra strand supposedly giving the pitcher a better grip on the ball...