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Eyes have two small types of elements on the retina, rods and cones. The rods are used in half light or in darkness, while the cones are used in color vision. It has already been known that there is a visional purple partly composed of vitamin A, which is used...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MINIATURE COLOR PHOTOGRAPH OUTFITS ARE IN CHICKENS' EYES | 3/5/1938 | See Source »

Cynosure of all eyes was an improvised sculptural group at the entrance, consisting of a broken-down closed car in which a skeleton sat, warm and dry, at the driver's wheel while in the back seat a semi-nude manikin was planted among flourishing weeds, a heavy shower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Super | 2/7/1938 | See Source »

Though it has no ghost, Boundary Against Night has almost everything else- spies, detectives, a conspiracy hatched after dark in a deserted church; 3 mad philosopher who sees the coming of complete moral darkness over the earth; a blind hero; a section devoted to Boston during the police strike (which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Boston Gothic | 1/31/1938 | See Source »

The whole tragedy, by means of the judicious cutting, is packed into an hour and a half. This brevity allows the tension to be sustained throughout the entire play, and the curtain does not fall till the end. The lights go out to indicate the change of scene, but there...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/26/1938 | See Source »

Tokyo was treated last week to some-thing as exciting as though Paris had learned during the World War that Sarah Bernhardt, Cecile Sorel or Mistinguett had eloped to Germany with a French admirer of Kaiser Wilhelm. A topflight Japanese stage & screen star is Miss Yoshiki Okada, billed soon to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: Beauteous Traitress | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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