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...London. Behind this film lay long years and millions of dollars of experimental work. Patient sponsors were London's venerable Spicers Ltd., makers of fine paper. The idea stems back to a crude geometrical color screen constructed in France 25 years ago by Louis Dufay. But so complex is the perfected method that some 500 patents were necessary to bring it up to the commercial stage. And it would not have been possible if the researchers had not had at their disposal the best modern panchromatic, high-speed, fine-grained emulsions...
...Recently floored by a complex problem in chemistry, a witty Princeton graduate student telephoned Dr. Einstein who almost instantly solved the problem, gave the answer with a chuckle...
...message, Love Will Find a Way. Benjie Herries (Robert Montgomery) is the black sheep of a huge English manor-house and bagpipe family. Other members of the family include a female centenarian (May Robson), lovely young Vanessa (Helen Hayes) and an anti-social introvert with a persecution complex (Otto Kruger). The trouble starts when Benjie goes to China instead of marrying Vanessa immediately. When he gets back, the manor house burns down and she suspects him of cowardice in not rescuing her father. Hurt, Benjie marries a barmaid. Dismayed, Vanessa marries the introvert. Not until Benjie has lost...
...interesting chapter on "The Inferiority Complex in Art" Mr. Fry relates the modernist cult in the arts with the democratic spirit in politics. The lack of culture in the ruling mob he believes is one impetus to the success of modernistic art which panders to the naive mass of uncultured culture seekers. He believes that the phenomenon of this new art presents a problem for profound study by psychologists. "The deification of ugliness and obscenity, the urge for mutilation, deformation, muddy color and exaggeration, are all symptoms," he says, "of sadism, indicating a form of psychopathiasexualis...
...genetics is no older than the 20th Century, and it has been pursued mainly with laboratory animals-fruit flies, guinea pigs, mice, paramecia. It is not surprising that the average cattleman should never have heard of sex-linkage, crossing over, multiple allelomorphism, or know that inheritance is a complex mechanism controlled by genes, invisible unit carriers of hereditary characters...