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...little-known fact about the holy mountain is that, besides housing many another Christian relic, its monasteries contain more pieces of the True Cross than any other single locality. The Cross has been calculated to have measured 178,000,000 cubic millimetres. Of 3,942,000 c. mm. extant, Mount Athos has pieces aggregating 878,360 c. mm., Rome...
...does contain Miss Le Gallienne which ordinarily would be justification per se for any play. But this time Miss Le Gallienne has made a bad mistake--much as she may fancy emulating Maude Adams and Sarah Beruhardt she is definitely not suited to this role. Weakly as Napoleon II might have been, he was nevertheless a male and this is something Miss Le Gallienne cannot achieve. Her work is good but she has set herself an impossible task...
...Elias. Started in 1917, the Al Munro Elias Baseball Bureau Inc. now supplies some 1,000 U. S. newspapers with daily & weekly statistics, releases yearly "unofficial" figures promptly at each season's close. The strange offices of the Al Munro Elias Bureau on Manhattan's 42nd Street contain the most elaborate baseball library in the world; a card index of every major league player for the last 20 years, with a lifetime record of his performances ; every box score kept since 1876. In the summer its eight clerks make a permanent record of every play in every major...
...past three months been having landlord trouble. Neither Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur, nor his Deputy, nor the other five members of the General Staff, had the faintest idea how much longer they would be in Washington. And while leases of the military at the Capital all contain a one-month's-notice clause, none of the staff or their aides knew what month to give notice...
...Current social and political trends, accentuated, if not directly provoked, by the economic depression, contain a menace for the great endowed institutions...