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Marching two-by-two, 40 terrified schoolchildren of Kesarion, suburb of Athens, were chivied along the sidewalk last week. The older children clenched their hands bravely beneath their black pinafores. The younger howled lustily and unashamed. They were going to the hospital. It was useless for patient teachers to explain that they were merely going to the hospital to have their eyes examined in accordance with the Government's physical culture program. To children of all Balkan countries, "hospital" is a most terrible word. "Hospital" is where you die, where they torture children, cut off their ears...
...basis of the talkie is dialog-not dramatic or literary dialog, but "elementary," sometimes mere grunts and wheezes. "The only people who have had much experience with elementary dialog are a few of our most popular writers of best sellers and the writers of vaudeville sketches." Authors Pitkin & Marston explain the mechanics of sound pictures, admit that their development is just getting under way, prophesy that they will complete the subjugation of the "legitimate" theatre. "The stage must pass, except as a rehearsal spot for companies preparing sound pictures...
Monuments. In his last days, his countrymen thought of Edward William Bok as a man who had not only left his mark on his time, but had erected monuments and written books to perpetuate and explain his career. His "singing tower," where the drowsy carillon tintinnabulates at sunset as bony red flamingos fly home ward, was the final gesture of an unusually self-conscious romanticist. Other gestures which followed his retirement in 1919 from the editorship of the Ladies' Home Journal...
...Johns Hopkins University, felt the intimation of such fortune. He is a chemist who has made a thoroughgoing study of gas adsorption and of catalysts. His knowledge he recently applied to motor exhaust CO, inventing a way of detoxicating it. What his process is he refused to explain publicly last week. A patent was not yet granted. In effect, he has found a catalyst which will quickly, cheaply, thoroughly get CO turned into C02 before it leaves the automobile. The catalyst is placed in the exhaust pipe line. How best to do this, mechanical engineers are now experimenting. Road tests...
...Theatre, where he produces Shakespeare, Byron, Moliére, Ibsen, Strindberg, Goethe, Hauptmann, and contemporary Czech plays. As a short-story writer, like Katherine Mansfield, like Anton Chekhov, Author Capek is fascinated by the drama of people's internal workings, but knows better than to try to explain them, leaves a large and readable