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While fat, young Vittorio Mussolini was getting a Bronx bird in Hollywood last month (TIME, Oct. 18) Rome was turning Hollywood Director Rouben Mamoulian into a lion. To Hollywood, II Duce's son was the unattractive symbol of a repressive political system. To Rome, Director Mamoulian, despite his Hollywood background, was an artist and a good one. Film Tsar Luigi Freddi entertained him at his home, where no Hollywoodman has been before. Princess Jane San Faustino (née Jane Campbell of Manhattan) introduced him to Crown Prince Umberto at a smart midnight party. Admirers brought him gifts...
...Besides being a ubiquitous bird, an ace strategist and an untiring worker, he is a master technician with perfect control of the mechanisms that he operates. To the citizen who does not want his picture in print, the news photographer is Public Pain in the Neck No. 1; to others he is the symbol of opportunity. His body belongs to the city editor, he has no soul, and his life is lived between the pulmotor and Paradise. But without him all news would be colorless and the newspaper just a broad expanse of funereal type...
...illustrated lecture last night before 25 members of the Harvard Ornithological Club, meeting in Adams House. Lawrence B. Fletcher, Secretary of the Northeastern Bird Banking Association, discussed the economic value of birds, the desirability of bird banding, and the lives of the humming bird and the tern...
High speed photographs have revealed that the raindrop, contrary to the popular conception of it as the inspiration for the super-streamlined automobile, is spherical. These pictures enable biologists to study the movement of the humming bird's wings...
...Birds of America was printed large 39½ in. by 26½ in.) at $1,000 a set, and hardly 200 sets were sold. Any well preserved complete set of that edition is now worth almost $15,000. When the "octavo" edition (10¼ in. by 7 in.) was brought out in 1840-44, including most of the "elephant" plates reduced, some new ones, and a considerable amount of written text, the predicted 1000 were subscribed for. This week the prediction was expanded to exploding point when 50,000 copies of the first "public" edition* were released. The new book...