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Helen Menken played the part, the same Helen Menken who for these many seasons has been playing the downtrodden French girl in Seventh Heaven. The new part is far more difficult and not so artfully woven round with that mysteriously effective element known as "theatre." Neither the play nor the actress was as excellent as many people hoped they would...
...57th Sts. and by 8th and 9th Aves. He did this quietly, anonymously, and proceeded to bring about the Metropolitan's vote of removal. There is a conservative faction in the producing company, stockholders with blood of deepest indigo and an inbred suspicion of change. To control this element, Mr. Kahn transfused "new blood" into the board-William Kissam Vanderbilt, Marshall Field, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney and others. But there impended a split with the Metropolitan Opera and Real Estate Company, comprising the conspicuous families who built the old House 43 years ago and still own it as their social...
...people die here from this dis ease. It presents itself in four main ways: 1) epithelial, in which there is no rodlike framework; 2) scirrhous or hard, in which the framework predominates and the tumor is hard and of slow growth; 3) encephaloid or soft, in which the cellular element predominates and the tumor is soft, grows rapidly and often ulcerates; and 4) colloid, in which the cancerous structure becomes gelatinous. The last three are also called carcinoma. There are no positive ways of curing cancer after it has leached advanced stages. Its progress may be arrested, in some cases...
...superior quality of their intellectual awakening as manifested in their political life. Their boast is not without grounds for it does take a very open state of mind to force the body to act according to the dictates of the conscience and an Occidental political career presupposes a certain element of domination by conscience. It must not be forgotten, however, that the European awakening has been confined to that phase of action which concerns the preservation of European liberties...
...airplanes for aerial observations. Soon after lunch on Jan. 14 their three important minutes came to these men. Cables began whisking the news back to civilization. The objectives and seeming successes of science had been: Data for determining the structure, shape, temperature, motion (if any) and "coronium" (unknown constituent element) of the flame-fringed corona-good photographs obtained with cameras up to 62 ft. long. Data to check Einstein's theory of "bent light," obtainable by photographing stars near the sun with a twin-lens camera- doubtful photographs taken. Data on lunar motion, obtainable by noting whether...