Maclean's

FICTION

...presenting "maiden effort"

A new movie serial featuring one of the most amusing groups of people you've ever met on or off the screen By SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS41 min

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GENERAL ARTICLES

Great Coronation Dramas

4. The Postponed Coronation By CHARLES BARDON BAILLEY8 min

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FICTION

I'm the Man You Killed

A weirdly dramatic story of a man who wouldn't stay dead and the girl who convinced him that life belongs to the living By ELISABETH SANXAY HOLDING27 min

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Leaders of Business Series: No. 1

FORTY-SEVEN years ago a McGill sophomore got fed up with mathematics. He decided to switch to classics. What he wanted was to follow in his father’s footsteps. His father was a country doctor in Knowlton, Brome County, Quebec. Kindly Dr. Johnston, for years Dean of Arts at McGill, intervened. By KENNETH R. WILSON7 min

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FICTION

The black "F"

Tailor-detective Treadgold wrestles with the case of the man in the suit that didn’t fit By VALENTINE WILLIAMS23 min

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Shots and Angles

REMBRANDT,” the Alexander Korda film starring Charles Laughton, is a distinguished, beautiful and scrupulously honest picture. Alexander Korda has given us, with great magnificence and detail, the background of a great man. And Charles Laughton, who knows more than most people about the feelings of an artist, has given us the great man himself. By ANN ROSS6 min

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FICTION

This Faithful Chameleon

Moral: If you’re fishing for a man don’t pretend that you like to fish for fish By ANN MORSE22 min

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GENERAL ARTICLES

"I Cover the Waterfront"

The amazing story of the insurance man who took a holiday to lead a revolution By AUSTIN F. CROSS5 min

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GENERAL ARTICLES

FISHY BUSINESS

A Japanese "floating cannery" has been operating off the B. C. coast—"It’s a menace," say many British Columbians By P. W. LUCE13 min

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HUMOR

Parade

A WEEK or two ago, the jail at Fort Frances, Ontario, was empty for the first time since it was built. The Times of that town reported that such circumstances made it hard for the jailer and the warden because the one had to scrub his own floors and the other had to wash his own dishes.

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GENERAL ARTICLES

Something new in Denmark

The Danes have learned how to help themselves — Result: Prosperity — Reasons: Education, Co-operation By HELEN MARSH13 min

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WOMEN AND THE HOME

Air Conditioning

THE TERM “Air Conditioning,” like charity, covers a multitude of sins. With some manufacturers of heating equipment, humidifiers, ventilating machinery and even electric fans making glib misuse of the words “air conditioning,” and also claims not always borne out by performance, it is essential that the buying public should obtain a clearer idea what air conditioning really is. By RICHARD A. FISHER (Architect)4 min

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In the Editor’s Confidence

MOST CANADIANS who live within reach of a movie theatre have seen “It Happened One Night.” The picture, starring Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable, not only won the screen award for the best film of the year, but broke box office records all over this continent.