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...least partly own and control it and must by hook or crook dominate Egypt, then a vassal state of the Turkish Sultans. Last week in Egypt, key to the Suez Canal. Britain's historic policy of dominating the now officially styled "Independent Kingdom of Egypt" rose up to knock spots off any moral case Britain has against Italian Imperialism in Ethiopia...
...APPENINE EVERY SATURDAY MORNING TO READ YOUR DISPATCH STOP SAY VATICAN DO TO HELP KNOCK YALE SICILY STOP REGARDS...
...simply Street Scene without a plot. But Mr. Kingsley's episode has been immeasurably enhanced by his collection of child actors. Although they are professional mummers, Tommy and most of his gang seem to come straight from Manhattan's slummy East Side. When they play gutter poker, knock each other down or yell, "You stink on ice!" they do so with great natural gusto and authority. Because of Master Halop & Co. and Designer Geddes' work. Dead End belongs on any theatrical "must" list...
...Arthur Eddington believes an internal temperature of 20,000,000° C. is enough. Sir James Jeans thinks it must be 40,000,000° or 50,000,000°, adding that a pinhead heated to this point would radiate energy at the rate of three quadrillion horsepower, knock down fortresses by sheer pressure of radiation (TIME, Nov. 19). Last week a Harvard physicist named T. E. Sterne offered the electrochemists calculations boosting the inside temperatures of ordinary stars (the sun is an ordinary star...
...bills -were on hand for the opening in Madison Square Garden. New features: a Mexican band; a corral full of Canadian bucking horses freshly picked by Colonel Johnson's bronco scout, Mike Hastings; Horseshoe Pitcher Ted Allen of Alhambra, Calif., whose best trick consists of making a shoe knock a paper bag off the head of an assistant named George on its way to falling for a ringer; and a bronco-rider named Sol Schneider who has spent his life in Brooklyn where his experience with horses began as lead-boy in a Coney Island pony ranch. Manhattan rodeo...