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...then a reception for the rest of town and gown deemed eligible to meet a genuine prince. Nothing was overlooked except that the committee neglected to ascertain that the Prince's hobby was paleobotany - of all things. When the train arrived His Royal Highness eagerly scanned the welcoming brass-hats and demanded "Where is Dr. Wieland?" Consternation smote the party and a frantic search for Yale's forgotten man ensued. He was eventually found at his modest Woodmont cottage, seven miles out of town (no telephone) , rushed into his best suit, to Memorial Hall, and into a seat...
...heroic, nasty, sadistic crew of them. In their transplanted metropolitan hell, Tommy (Billy Halop), Dippy (Huntz Hall), Angel (Bobby Jordan), Spit (Leo Gorcey), T. B. (Gabriel Dell) and Milty (Bernard Punsly) again speak in the thickened explosives of New Yorkese, roast mickeys (potatoes) in street fires, harass the brass-buttoned doorman of the neighborhood's swank apartment house, defy a flatfoot (policeman), beat the dickens out of a rich kid (Charles Peck), plan a gang war. When the rich kid's old man tries to have Tommy pinched for copping his son's watch Tommy slashes...
...Massachusetts Institute of Technology got $85,000 for a big differential analyzer ('"brass brain") which makes possible rapid solution of engineering computations which would otherwise be impossible or impractically laborious...
...piece Music Hall Symphony Orchestra plays almost prayerfully. Sometimes it lashes and groans through a hot, new delirium. The 46 young ladies in the Rockette troupe are equal to either occasion. They can move shyly and demurely in ballet tulle. They can kick and whirl giddily to shrieking brass. Exact, machine-like execution has made the Rockettes known wherever U. S. precision dancing is known and many a strict balletomane takes the organization seriously. New glory came last week to the Rockettes when Edmond Labbé, general commissioner of the Paris Exposition, picked them out to dance at the Exposition...
...Burgos, Generalissimo Franco led the funeral march through the streets while Rightist sympathizers scattered rose petals from the balconies and a muted brass band played Sueño Eterno (Eternal Sleep...