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...normal breathing, carbon dioxide taken into the lungs from the blood helps (via the brain) to stimulate the lungs to expand and contract. Based on this physiological fact is the principle of giving cases of electrical shock, and now (experimentally) pneumonia cases, a little lung-stimulating carbon dioxide with the excess of pure oxygen for the blood...
Marlene Dietrich, German, had tried to be a violinist, given it up, studied drama at Max Reinhardt's school and played in the German version of Broadway when von Sternberg put her on contract. He said: "Thank God you are not like the American actresses. You can make more than three faces." Mysterious on the screen, she is plump and girlish in private life; she dislikes Hollywood women because "they talk about their bracelets." She knows little English but her accent has been eliminated before the microphone because von Sternberg did not allow her to memorize her lines until...
...National bridge tournament sponsored by the American Bridge League; at Cleveland. Contested championships: mixed pair auction, men's & women's pair auction, men's & women's team-of-four auction, contract pair & team-of-four...
According to Mara in a few days Tun ney called on him and told him he was "out of the contract." "I asked him what he meant and he said: 'How can I afford to pay you 25% and Billy Gibson 25% and that 25% that Gibson tied me up for in Philadelphia? Here I toil and sweat up in the mountains. . . .' He ran his hands through his hair and said in a loud voice 'I don't know what this is all about...
...year in Paris will be held the French International Colonial Exposition. U. S. exhibits will be housed in a reproduction of George Washington's Mount Vernon home and in two wings, the plans of which were completed last week. A U. S. firm has been awarded the construction contract, an award surprising to persons who have not followed developments in the home-building fields. Builder of Mount Vernon for France will be Sears, Roebuck & Co., potent Chicago mail-order house...