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...Lucien Guitry in Amants. Famed for his portrayal of Dr. Moriarty in Sherlock (1907), he was a member in good standing of the Paris pre-War esthete set, friend of Picasso, Apollinaire, Max Jacob. Forgotten by his public when the War was over, he worked his way up in bit parts, made his cinema debut in Gap Perdu (1930). U. S. audiences have seen him as the father in Poll de Carotte, in the French version of Les Miserables...
...surprised that anyone sufficiently up-to-date as to be a reader of TIME should cherish such an anachronism as the bit in Miss Radway's letter...
...First Lord Sir Samuel had spectacular "sham battles" fought at Malta during the week. Simulating Italian bombers, British planes droned over Malta for three hours. On land antiaircraft batteries belched sheets of flame. British first-aid squads dashed about the streets pretending to succor the imaginary wounded, this bit of realism being frankly copied from Germany and Japan...
...about the observers I send out to the stations," commented Dr. Abbot. "They must have tact, trustworthiness, a ready knowledge of physics, and be able to get along with each other. For they must remain practically isolated from the world for three years at a time. That is a bit too long and something will have to be done about keeping them at their stations for shorter times...
...Atlanta, Jack Bone, aged 17 months, came upon an eight-inch snake in his back yard, bit it, killed it. Bundled off to a hospital, Jack Bone was pronounced unharmed...