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...hugeness, sumptuousness, et cetera, is carried out with more intelligence and better artistic taste than in any previous one of the series. There are gorgeous spectacles-royal wedding in Westminster Abbey-a striking scene wherein great chandeliers are decorated with ladies of the chorus pinch-hitting for the usual crystal ornaments-a section of the French Revolution-a flash of dear old Fujiyama -and others-dozens of others-too many to count or describe. In fact about everything spectacular that can be done with costumes, lavish scenic effects and a well trained chorus is done, except the Last Judgment. Presumably...
...Kalinin, second President of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic: Represents the peasants, who reëstablished private property. "Lenin gazed at Russia through Kalinin's eyes as one gazes in a crystal.'' Tolerates religion. His old, religious mother is violently anti-Bolshevik. No one thinks of assassinating him because he is one of the "folks...
...securing the maximum of sound without sacrificing clearness. He then diagrammed the various methods of setting up a set by which one can increase the intensity of sound without being troubled by excessive sputtering from the instruments. Mr. Dallin discovered in particular the relative disadvantages of the regenerative, crystal, and reflex receiving outfits, favoring the crystal detector as the best receiver of music. In speaking of the possible strength to which such sets can be developed, he mentioned the fact that Great Britain built a 19-stage regenerative amplifier in the late war which enabled her to hear the German...
...post has been occupied by an American for 20 years, and another Anglo-Saxon is considered undesirable. Mme. Marguerite Schlumberger, president of the French branch of the alliance, is suggested, but her election might "drive the Germans out of the association." Besides Mrs. Ashby and Mme. Schlumberger, Miss Crystal MacMillan of Scotland is the only other woman mentioned as a presidential possibility...
Yesterday evening, in the second-year court of the Ames Competition, in Austin East, the Marshall Club of the Law School defeated the Pound Club in a mock-trial involving wills. Marshall, the defendant, was represented by E. C. Johnson 2L., while the losers were D. D. Crystal 2L. and H. M. Lovett...