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Wine of Youth. Rachel Crothers' play Mary the Third has been poured into the cinema mold and turned out in the old, familiar fashion. There was a note of uncertainty in the original that reminded one of A Doll's House and gave the visitor a mental bone to gnaw. But the mentality of cinema audiences is not nourished on bones. They are supplied with oozing fritters drenched in the syrup of the happy ending. The story has to do with three generations of married life, with various reflections on modern youth. Eleanor Boardman is an acceptable heroine...
...German, the united product of grandparents named McGregor, Lee, O'Brien and Schurz. Public Record, after business and farming success, terms as Governor, United States Senator, Cabinet officer, Ambassador and the author of textbooks on world economics. Habits, excellent; a moderate drinker before 1917, but dry as a bone ever since; a fairly regular churchgoer. Family, the same wife he has had all along, and sturdy children. Personal relationships, liked by every one; known affectionately as 'old man' to Lodge, La Follette, McAdoo, Smith, Coolidge and Dawes, and as 'Senator' to an admiring populace. Residence...
...done for removal of the appendix, an inflammation of the gall bladder or for some other reason. The specific cause of the pain is the fact that, in short-waisted people, or people having unusually long ribs, stooping over habitually squeezes a nerve trunk between the rib and hip bone. The chief sign of the disease is an extreme pain when pressure is applied under the rib. At operation the swollen nerve ending and the tip of the rib may be removed, and in a correctly diagnosed and properly treated case, the cure of the pain is immediate and permanent...
Dartmouth suffered an unfortunate break two weeks ago when Austin, speedy right fielder, ran into the stands while in pursuit of a foul fly, fracturing a bone in his left forearm. He is out for the season. He led off the Dartmouth batting order and had hit for 280 in 18 games while fielding his position without a miscue...
...Viennese surgeon: "With my son, Dr. Albert D. Lorenz, and Dr. D. D. Ashley, I was named as a defendant in a damage suit. The complainant, one David L. Evans, an American, alleged that in a 'careless, negligent and unscientific operation' his baby son's thigh bone was fractured; demanded $60,000 for the injuries...