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...which would seem to recall that "Ei" placard that we chortled over the other day. Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell are proudly responsible. "We are pleased to announce," they blare, "that our popular stews now contain 50 per cent more meat, in addition to many other good vegetables...
...Sarnac executes a rich bourgeois and confiscates his property, Voltaire has his daughter, Nanette (Margaret Lindsay), rescued and brought to his house by a captain of dragoons (Theodore Newton). This infuriates de Sarnac. He gets his chance for revenge when Voltaire writes a play based upon court doings and containing a last act in which Louis XV is executed by his subjects. The King orders Voltaire to the Bastille, dismisses Pompadour for having made him her acquaintance. Voltaire's situation looks serious until he learns from his secretary that de Sarnac has been selling state secrets to Frederick...
Forty-five separate clouds of galaxies have been studies at Harvard during the last few years. Some contain only a few galaxies, other contain several hundred. Observation seems to show that the universe is closed; that every part of it is related by the force of gravity or the Einstein space effect. It was found that the light from the distant nebulae varied from that no earth...
...year-old John Edgar Hoover, chief of the present Bureau of Investigation. Capable, efficient, he succeeded the late great William John Burns as director of the Bureau of Investigation in 1924. A firm believer in fingerprints, he expanded the U. S. identification and crime statistics systems, which now contain nearly 4,000,000 records of criminals and Federal civil service employes. His assistants must be college graduates and lawyers, must go through a special training course in crime detection. A shrewd and able criminologist, Detective Hoover is gentlemanly, reticent, hardworking...
Editrix Hersey announces revival of the Police Gazette in September as a fortnightly. It will be printed in rotogravure with the old masthead. There will be a comic strip narrating the life of a chorus girl named "Flossie Flip" and a Broadway colyum. Besides sport news, it will contain, in Editrix Hersey's carefully chosen words: "Lots of sex, underworld stuff with a sex angle, and plenty of pictures of semi-nude nightclub girls...