Cinema: Variations Mar. 11, 1929

At the first showing in Manhattan of a newsreel concerning the rescue of the Nobile North Pole Expedition by the Russian icebreaker, Krassin, yells, screams, and shouts of "Cannibal" greated the image of Zappi, Italian captain accused of eating Swedish Explorer Malmgren.

Annoyed by noises interfering with a sound-production, one William Seiter, directing Corinne Griffith, tore off his derby hat, spat and stamped on it. He received next day from Miss Griffith a new derby, black, shiny, made of tin.

Count Leo Tolstoy, dying, bequeathed the rights of all his stories to mankind. Last...

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