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...LINCOLN MURDERED?-Otto Eisenschiml-Little, Brown ($3.50). It may have been Booth's idea, says Author Eisenschiml, but it was Secretary of War Stanton's curious negligence in protecting Lincoln that was really responsible for the murder...
...destroy false gods that have been forced upon us in the museums." These sentiments are heartily seconded in Sanity in Art's ensuing pages by a number of press quotations from Music News, the Elkhart, Ind. Tribune, the Birming ham, N. Y. Press, followed by approving letters from Booth Tarkington, Baritone John Charles Thomas, Senator & Mrs. J. Hamilton Lewis, and Mrs. H. G. Wotherspoon, president of the Daytona Beach branch of the National League of American Penwomen. At the end of the book are appended, without any explanation, 98 pictures, starting with prehistoric rock carvings, showing 29 Logan prizewinners...
Penrod & Sam (Warner). Even the audience which did not read Booth Tarkington's Penrod stories when they were the same age as the protagonists will catch some of the backyard necromancy of their childhood in this latter-day version of a Penrod sequel. To the audience which is reading them now, the greatest picture ever made would come out second-best to Penrod & Sam if coupled with it on a double bill. The plot contains more Warner Bros, than Tarkington, but the liberties do not affect the characters which, in the persons of the amazing children with which Hollywood...
Among the outstanding American Hamlets there are pictures and playbills of the productions of Junius Brutus Booth and his more famous son, Edwin. A playbill, dated 1864, announces the appearance of the eminent tragedian John Wilkes Booth, brother of Edwin and assassin of Abraham Lincoln, in the role of Hamlet at the Boston Museum...
Described in Bell Laboratories Record last week was a booth switch in the form of a small glass tube containing a pellet of mercury, which is a good conductor of electricity. When the door is open the mercury remains at one end of the tube. Closing the door tilts it so that the mercury rolls to the other end, closing a circuit between two electrodes, lighting the light and starting the fan. This little switch makes no noise, has no moving parts...