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Tucked away in the sedate red-&-gold interior of the Metropolitan Opera House last week, hidden in wings and footlights, were half a dozen intruders in those almost sacred precincts?microphones. To the "Met" they represented a compromise and a new source of income?an arrangement with National Broadcasting Co. reported to bring $250,000 for 25 broadcast operas. To the U. S. radio audience, it was briefly exciting ? speeches by NBC's President Merlin Hall Aylesworth and Board Chairman Paul Drennan Cravath of the Metropolitan, sounds of the orchestra tuning up under Conductor Karl Riedel, echoes...
...current was turned on the graphite interior of the crucible quickly grew white hot. Through one of two small tubes in the cover of the furnace Engineer Chesnut, wearing dark glasses, could peer, and so good was the insulation that he could put his eye within a few inches of the tube. Keeping the temperature at 3,000°-600° below the vaporization point of graphite-Engineer Chesnut could drop objects through the tube, watch what happened in the hellish interior. Wood was instantly reduced to vapor, burning as a sudden jet of gas. Rocks quickly became vaporized, silicon...
Muzzle. The Bruning Dictatorship did not stop its attack on the Hitler advance there. Adolf Hitler was scheduled to make a radio address to the U. S. The German Government forbade it. Prussian Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Karl Severing was called into consultation; a lengthy meeting was held to decide whether the Government dared expel Fascist Hitler from Germany without bringing on the long-feared revolution...
...cinemaddicts with three of the dustiest vehicles of the year. Tarnished Lady was claptrap about a girl who married for money and later regretted it. My Sin was a routine rigmarole about a lady who tried to conceal a Central American past in a Manhattan interior decorating establishment. The Cheat is along the same lines-about a girl who loses $20,000 gambling and to pay it, has to borrow from the villain of the piece. Her husband gives her money to cover the loan but the villain (Irving Pichel) refuses to accept a check. In two previous versions...
Died. Mrs. Rue Winterbotham Carpenter, 53, interior decorator, wife of Businessman-Composer John Alden Carpenter; of cerebral hemorrhage; in Chicago. Mrs. Carpenter, president of the Chicago Arts Club, superintended art work for the rooms of the Double Six Club in Manhattan's new Waldorf-Astoria, for the Elizabeth Arden Building...