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...Dyke-whose specialty heretofore has been wild animal pictures- Penthouse is good, straightforward Metro-Goldwyn-Mayerdrama, with glass doors and modern furniture. Most exciting shot: one of Crelliman's underlings (George E. Stone) squeaking and wriggling when he gets the third degree. The Passion of Joan of Arc (Société Général des Films), with
Motor Business Since last May nine out of ten U. S. businesses have boomed. Automobiles arc just one of the nine. But how big the car boom has been few people realize. Last week were published June production figures of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce showing 195,000 cars turned out (compared with 95,000 in June 1932). Ford is not a member of the auto C. of C. So Ford's estimated output of 55,000 cars brings June 1933 production up to a round quartermillion. In spite of the fact that automobile production lagged behind...
...Great arc lights flooded the City College Stadium in New York last week. Some 12.000 people clambered up the bleachers. Dozens more dotted the roofs of the dingy apartment houses nearby-to look down into the football arena which had been converted into summer concert grounds for the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten, looking like a college boy in his white flannel pants, made the opening concert a memorial to Brahms and Wagner.* He flicked his baton in militant, routine fashion but most of the orchestramen needed no leading. They could have played the familiar music with their...
...bulb itself has four terminals, two for the filament, and is filled with neon gas and metallic sodium. When the current is switched on, an arc light springs from the filament, takes on a red glow from the neon gas, then a yellow glow from the evaporation of the filament. The bulb consumes 80 watts of electricity, but because it produces so much more light than the ordinary lamp of that wattage, its sponsors claim that it is not only more efficient but, once installed, is more economical. Chief problems have been that sodium attacks ordinary glass and that...
...roses and lilies fell from heaven, "because she never did it mechanically." Philip Neri, disciple of Savonarola, said: "Despise the world; despise yourself; and despise being despised." A post-mortem showed that his heart had grown so great that it had displaced one of his ribs. Of Joan of Arc, Hagiographer Wescott says: "If she was not a witch, the church is guilty of having destroyed its rarest heroine as a political expedient: if she was, it is guilty of having canonized her for more amiable reasons of the same general sort." Of The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus...