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...Manhattan police headquarters. Accordingly one might reasonably expect a stern diversion dealing with the police department on duty through a bloody evening. But the play, of all things, is a dream fantasy. A pugilist is hit on the chin and the developments of the second act are designed to explain what a pugilist thinks about when he is knocked unconscious. It seems this particular pugilist wanted to be an architect and marry a maid above his station. His distrustful manager suggested that if he persisted in these inflated notions he would land at police headquarters. These disheveled inventions are woven...
Practical scientists who were able to attend the winter meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at Manhattan last week edged forward on their seats when rumpled-haired Dr. William David Coolidge began to explain his further experiments with cathode rays. Dr. Coolidge, assistant director of the General Electric Co.'s research laboratories, had just received the Institute's Edison Medal for his "contributions to the incandescent electric lighting and x-ray arts" by his development of ductile tungsten for bulb filaments and x-ray targets. At the same ceremony John Joseph Carty of the American Telephone...
...torch of Science. Theories are born, have their being, and die in rapid tempo: the ideas set down as dogmas in a scientific textbook "brought up to the minute" a decade ago are a laughingstock now. The actual accomplishments of Science are tangible enough, but the reasoning used to explain them today merely forms a link in an endless chain of fallacies tomorrow...
Reticent Chief. No one tried harder to put the "Big Navy" plan before the country in a peaceful light than the man who had to explain it to Congress, Admiral Charles Frederick Hughes, Chief of Operations. To be on the safe side, he stuck as close as possible, almost word for word, to the statement of his predecessor, Rear Admiral Edward Walter Eberle, whose estimates of the year before had been revised only slightly since the Geneva Conference. It was characteristic of Admiral Hughes that he did not think to emphasize that point, to silence talk of "competition," that, when...
...Dane's Defense. A new repertory company of able artists (Violet Heming, Alison Skipworth, Robert Warwick, et al.) revived as their first production this play of the yeasty '90's. As everyone over 40 knows and everyone who has ever attended a course on the drama can explain, this was a slashing play. Mrs. Dane was a fallen woman, and she lied about it?to preserve her place in suburban London society and to keep the young squib whom she loved. Such conduct was reprehensible, and the neighbors, including the ineffective young swain, felt obligated to expel her. Chastity went...