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With Laura Hope Crews in Olympia is famed Fay Compton, who has excited English enthusiasm since her 1911 debut in The Follies. Long ago, Fay Compton played the title rôle, which made Maude Adams famous here, in Peter Pan. Those actresses who are great in Barrie's plays, like those who excel in Shakespeare's, are a special type, often not successful elsewhere. Fay Compton is perhaps a Barrie actress but she has been cheered in many other sorts of plays. Since 1914, she has not played in the U. S.; then...
...Daventrys were a community in themselves. There were five children, besides the resident cousin, who at the age of fifteen was in love with Octavia, youngest daughter of the house. A professor, kindly young recluse, woos her with classical quotations, understands her adolescent enthusiasms, guides her voracious reading. Worldly Compton, 34, gloating upon her 17 years of mobile beauty, coaches her proficient horsemanship, persuades her parents to send her to his friends of the English hunting world...
...Compton had thought so to win her, his calculations played him false. For Octavia's intense vitality was quickly engrossed in pursuit of hounds on the scent. Debonair Lord Tilbury loaded her with flowers, declared his love. And a highly respected Master of Hounds, dull, substantial, shy, delegated his mother to propose marriage. Octavia would make a fitting mistress to a world of vigorous horsemen...
...Sardinian tales, received the 1927 literature award. Medical diplomas for 1926 and 1927 went respectively to Dr. Johannes Fibiger, Danish cancer expert; and to Dr. Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Viennese professor of medicine. Finally the 1927 physics award was shared by two scholarly investigators of electrophysics: Professors Arthur Holly Compton (U.S.) and Charles T. R. Wilson (Britain...
Significance. The significance of such researches in pure science are usually difficult for the lay mind to appreciate. It is plain, however, that the more people know of the nature of matter, the more they can do with that matter. This truism, Professor Karl Taylor Compton of Princeton (brother of Arthur Holly Compton) elaborated only last month at the Founder's Day exercises of Lehigh University. Said he: "Inventors in this country have always been popular idols. We tell young school children about the inventions of Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney and Thomas Edison. We have been blessed...