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...Antoine Henri Becquerel of France left some uranium salts lying in the dark near a photographic plate. When he developed the plate he found that some sort of rays from the uranium, passing through a metal container and several other obstacles, had left an image on the plate. Thus by accident Becquerel, who shared a Nobel Prize with Pierre and Marie Curie, discovered radioactivity...
...Atlantic City, N. J., the Steel Pier Opera Company last week began its tenth season with an English production of Il Trovatore. Henri Elkan again conducted. Other operas listed: Verdi's Rigoletto, von Flotow's Martha, Debussy's L'Enfant prodigue, Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana...
...Kenneth's signature to the contract for Nolan Heights. Her efforts are complicated by the connivings of Nina Tennyson (Leona Maricle) whom Kenneth has brought home with him from European travels and who designs to victimize him so that she can live at ease with her true love Henri (Erik Rhodes). To forestall Virginia's schemes, Henri, at one point in the proceedings, chases her into a magnolia tree. To forestall Henri, Virginia's ally (Ella Logan) bites Henri...
When Composer Henri Rabaud made an opera out of the 959th of the 1,001 Arabian Nights, he clothed it in music gay, elaborate and Oriental. The fact that parts of it recall Rimsky-Korsakov never seemed to matter. A good-natured plot and attractive sets helped make Marouf popular at the Paris Opera-Comique. The opera had eleven performances at the New York Metropolitan between 1917 and 1920. Though Composer Rabaud meant his lead to be a tenor, Baritone Giuseppe de Luca always sang the role at the Metropolitan. Last week the spring company resurrected Marouf...
...Paris 65-year-old Henri Guilloux, cautious chauffeur to the late King Edward VII of England, suddenly ran amok, murdered a neighbor, hanged his wife, killed himself...