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...Manhattan last week. The store is only locally obscure. Among explorers it is world famed. The sign outside carries the legend: Fiala Outfits. That is sufficient. Anthony Fiala, 61. is the foremost U. S. outfitter of expeditions. Originally a lithographer and photographer, he sidled into the outfitting business after twice trying to reach the North Pole-with the Baldwin-Ziegler (1901-02) and the Ziegler (1903-05) expeditions. He accompanied Roosevelt through Brazil in 1913-14. Explorer Wilkins found Outfitter Fiala sitting back of a glass partition at the store's rear. The proprietor was not busy. He rarely...
...been a form of entertainment reasonably free from extraneous advertising. Less for ethical than for practical reasons the cinema maintained the same policy until about a year ago when, searching shrewd methods to combat Depression, producers hit on the scheme of making short advertising films which were paid for twice-first by the advertisers, second by cinemaddicts who paid to see them as entertainment. The scheme was bound to arouse resentment from other fields which combine advertising with amusement. It received its first public attack last week in the form of a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission, made...
...Radiowners were told they might tune in and hear "The Globe Trotter" relate his stories in more detail. At newsreel theatres were showing shots of the events thus Globe-Trotted. This ingenious coordination of press, radio and screen was the latest development of Hearst Metrotone News. The reels, distributed twice weekly by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, are prepared in Manhattan but can be modified to include events of local interest where they are displayed. The name of the "sponsoring" newspaper is worked into the radio broadcast and into the title of the film, e. g.: "Hearst Metrotone News . . . The New York...
...thesis, visits the queer country household of La Quartfourche. They are all old people there except one crippled boy, grandson to one couple, great-nephew to the other. The boy's absent mother, Isabelle. still young, still beautiful, is never mentioned. But she is allowed to come back twice a year, at the dead of night, to see her child. Young Lacase falls in love with her, first from her picture, then from an old letter, then from a glimpse of her. His visit ends, he goes away. Months later he returns. The old people are dead, the house...
After a bad start, during which the first five games were lost, Princeton took a brace and defeated Rutgers 15 to 9, losing to Fordham 4 to 0, beating Virginia twice, tying Columbia, and beating N. Y. U. The Tigers, however, also lost to Holy Cross and Boston College...