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Admission to cinema entertainment in the U. S. varies between $3.30 and lof4 depending on the age of the film and the amount of rococo in the theatre. Whatever the price, those who pay may well feel the need of a chart...
CATHERINE-PARIS - Princess Marthe Bibesco-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). This faithful chart of the peregrinations of high society in pre-War Europe is shocking evidence of just how pre-War dull those peregrinations were. Rumanian born, but bred in democratic Paris, Princess Catherine marries an Austro-Polish count, who withdraws immediately to his round of mistresses, leaving his consort to make her rounds of pompous European courts. Though Franz Joseph, Wilhelm II, and the Czar are the objects of the princess's irony, they prove as boring to her as to her readers. Not until she gets back...
...least seven new cinemas are released every week in the U. S. Bad ones often last six months; good ones, a year. That makes a large number now running. Herewith, a chart of current cinemas...
...slim young doctor strides through the wards of Montefiore Hospital, New York. He stops at a bed, reads a chart, scrutinizes a face, listens to a heart. He prescribes and strides on, his necktie, but not his thoughts, dangling loosely. He is Dr. Morris M. Weiss. Twenty-six-year-old Dr. Weiss already has two discoveries on heart disease to his credit. One discovery was that auricular fibrillation (a form of heart disease in which the heart fibres rustle like breeze-tossed leaves) was common among children. Dr. Weiss made the discovery by shrewdly interpreting the ominous irregularity of heartbeats...
Besides his administrative duties, Mr. Webb does considerable writing. Every Saturday he shatters the doctrine that only one thing can be done at one time, for while Harvard and Yale will be battling on the turf this afternoon. Mr. Webb will be keeping a chart of the game, observing the individual play of each of the 22 men; but the "System" will be running the press...