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...Time was when a boiled or a poached egg was a delight; but now when hens are fed on scientific messes, a fresh boiled or poached egg is little better than a dose of glue on the stomach and the same goes for all foods which are grown not according to Nature's way but are fed on the formulae of a lot of Whitehall chemists...
...full-page Kats and 10,000 strips. An amazing number of them are the keenest, dizziest kind of inspiration. Wrote Critic Gilbert Seldes of Herriman's work 20 years ago: "In the second order of the world's art it is superbly first rate - and a delight!" Delight was Herriman's strongest point in a world where most artists had lost...
...performance of nutcracker-faced, 56-year-old Barry Fitzgerald, the finest, funniest and most touching portrayal of old age that has yet reached the screen. In so doing, it points the way to the great films which will be possible when Hollywood becomes aware of the richness and delight of human character observed for its own sake...
...towering (6 ft. 7 in.), gloomy-browed Playwright Robert E. Sherwood (Idiot's Delight)* sometime Presidential speech doctor, was in town to "coordinate" U.S. propaganda between London and the Mediterranean. He managed to get around to a fair share of cocktail parties, where he looked miserable, helped serve drinks. Playwright Sherwood's There Shall Be No Night, one of wartime London's smash hits, had to suspend performances when Actor Alfred Lunt caught bronchitis fire-watching, and passed his cold along to Actress Lynn Fontanne...
...that Jesuit monks at an observatory in Spain had photographed, every day from 1910 to 1937, certain calcium clouds on the sun's surface. Dr. Abbot compared measurements of fluctuation in the area of these clouds with his own measurements of solar heat and weather. To his great delight, all three showed almost exactly the same pattern of ups & downs...