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...country store at Mars Bluff, S. C., old churches and older graveyards lent their bit to the production. In search of a house for the Connellys Director King and party visited Redcliffe, plantation home of the descendants of Senator James Henry ("Cotton is King") Hammond (1807-64) at Beech Island, S. C. across the Savannah River from Augusta, Ga. Noted were its enormous hall, its silver hardware, its fallen plaster, its air of dingy decay. Outside of Florence, S. C., Director King found the old Johnson plantation house which he had carefully measured and photographed. When he got back...
...Edward L. Bernays. It was bustling "Eddie" Bernays who got the Edison Mazda lamp put on a special postage stamp for the 50th anniversary of the electric light. Also he conceived the soap-sculpture fad for Procter & Gamble; and promoted "big breakfast" propaganda to boost bacon for Beech-Nut Packing Co. But no competitor can approach Ivy Lee in wealth and social stature. His friends are Rockefellers, Mackays, Guggenheims, John William Davis, the late Senator Dwight Morrow. His daughter Alice was presented at Court. He lives magnificently in swank East 66th Street...
...demonstrations follow: Dr. B. F. Skinner, recently elected Junior Fellow, will cenduct an experiment on the "Behavior of Rats"; Dr. Ernst Wolf. "The Visual Acuity of Bees"; John Ehrlich "The Epidemic Diseases of Beech Trees"; A. B. Hatch of the Harvard Forest, "Fungus Roots"; and D. W. West, professor of Botany, "Plant Pathology...
Saint Wench (by John Colton; Helen Menken, producer). Playwright John Colton is the man who wrote The Shanghai Gesture, co-dramatized a William Somerset Maugham story into Rain. Helen Menken of the thin face and beech-leaf hair accomplished emotional successes in Seventh Heaven, The Infinite Shoeblack, The Captive. It is to be recorded with reluctance that Mr. Colton's Saint Wench, acted in and managed by Miss Menken, is an unconscionable bore, a pitiably uninspired piece of stagecraft...
...next numbers will be puppet shows managed by C. S. Beech and Vincent Palmer. The first will be a sketch entitled "The Big Fight," the second a number "Dancing Skeletons" that requires expert manipulation. This will be followed by a juggling and cycling act by W. P. Rockwell and F. L. Spreckels...