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Where were Hsi and Ho? Where were the court astronomers? On this day in ancient China, some two millenniums before Christ, a monster was seen devouring the sun. While people rushed about madly and beat drums to scare off the celestial demon, Court Astronomers Hsi and Ho were found drunk. To punish them for being "sunk in wine and excess" instead of tending to business on a dire occasion, they had their heads...
Also Showing The Human Monster (Monogram). Repeated discovery of corpses on the mud flats of the Thames River causes Scotland Yard to suspect foul play. Proving it onvolves Inspector Holt (Hugh Williams), Dr. Orloff (Bela Lugosi) and Diana Stuart (Greta Gynt) in some routine Edgar Wallace blood-chilling in a mysterious home for blind...
Elementary instruction in submarine navigation and a day's cruise in a metal sea-monster are some of the fruits of long classroom hours that Uncle Sam is offering N.R.O.T.C. men during the spring vacation, it was learned recently from authorities at 31 Holyoke Street...
...machine-tool industry is no monster economic unit. In a big year like 1937 it may gross $200,000,000, about as much as the automobile industry (cars and trucks) may gross in a month. When other industry stagnates, it stagnates too, and its grey-haired veterans switch their diamond-studded long-service pins from their overalls to the lapels of their best blue suits. The companies that make machine tools are as individualistic as their workmen. Most of them started as small family enterprises, and have not far outgrown that stage. Because of their independence...
...Bishop need not blush for youth's pained surprise when it hears this moral monster, or expect an era of free love to be ushered in. Students of college age no longer have to go back of the barn to whisper the facts of life. His is a naive, almost insulting, estimate of the moral fibre of youth. Extended the hospitality of C.C.N.Y., and due to give twelve guest lectures at Harvard next year, Mr. Russell will offer his many hearers a glimpse of a trenchant mind, and a taste of new knowledge. And medieval blasts...