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Cinema contracts prevented Golfer Robert Tyre Jones Jr. from going to England to defend his British Amateur championship last week. But there was a curiously neat compensation. Ready on the first tee of the Westward Ho! course at starting time was another U. S. celebrity even more famed & popular than Golfer Jones. A brownish, stocky little man, he attracted an unprecedented swarm of autograph hunters. A dozen ladies were so anxious to have their children see him play that they pushed perambulators after him over five miles of gently undulating Devonshire. British golf critics agreed that his swing was good...
...According to this hypothesis the core of Earth is very dense material called Nife. Incasing Nife is a shell of Sima. Floating on Sima are slabs of Sial, called continents. Evidence in support of the Wegener hypothesis is the fact that Greenland, Earth's largest island, is drifting westward 65 ft. a year...
...sawdust trail is winding westward and Billy Sunday, saver of souls, is on his way. Behind him Sodom's smoke curls lazily skyward while a new city rises from the ashes. The surviving policeman declares himself lost in the new order, for he finds the wheels of authority greased with brotherly love rather than with the customary smooth oil of corruption...
...newspaperman and his family was brilliantly cinematic in print and is vivid and memorable journalism as a cinema. It is a long, full-bodied picture, paced so deftly that although it covers more than half a century of crowded, changing events, it never drags and is rarely jerky. Westward goes Richard Dix with his wife (Irene Dunne) to start a newspaper in the town of Osage, Okla., which has sprung into a population of 10,000 in six weeks. He fights the outlawry that has terrorized the clapboard civilization; he establishes himself as the leading citizen of Osage and then...
...York State Athletic Commission started something last fortnight which may move boxing westward from the eastern seaboard. Dogmatic and irascible Big Jim Farley, chairman, started the Commission. The Commission had given Max Schmeling his tit's when Sharkey fouled him last June, stipulating then that he must sign within nine months to meet an opponent picked by them. They picked Jack Sharkey, ordered Schmeling, through his manager and proxy, Joe Jacobs, to sign with Sharkey at once or forfeit his title. Jacobs suggested that the Commission arrange for Sharkey to fight Stribling, the winner to meet Schmeling. Both fights...