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...beacon is to be left at Newark for airlines to test the needed new equipment (a 15-lb. receiver for the landing beam) and for airline pilots to get practice. It constitutes the magnum opus of Col. Clarence Marshall Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, whose routine resignation was on file last week, and his first aide, Col. Harry Harmon Blee. He was ready to demonstrate it last month when his test pilot, Marshall S. ("Maury") Boggs, who had made innumerable blind landings, crashed to death in broad daylight on a joyhop in California...
...Eugene O'Neill had thought of it first, the theme of "The Sacred Flame," now at the Peabody Playhouse, would have been tortured into a drama of epic grandcur. It has all the essentials of an O'Neill magnum opus; there's murder, and adultery, and starved sexuality, and problems of passion galore. It might very well have been worked up by America's foremost tragedian into a magnificent scream-fest, with an hour out for supper and a year's run on Broadway...
...program is as follows: Quartet in G Major, Opus 77, No. 1 Haydn First Movement, Quartet G Minor DeBussy Quintet in B Minor for Clarinet and Strings Brahms The personnel of the quintet is as follows: M. H. Holmes '28 First Violin Harold Schmidt '32 Second Violin James Ulmer Viola A. O. Allen 2G Cello T. F. Parshley '35 Clarinet...
...opening program of the series will be as follows: Beethoven, Sextet for String Quartet and Two Horns in E-flat (Opus 81b); Hindemith, Third Quartet; Brahms, Quartet in C-minor (Opus 51). Messrs. Valkenier and Lannoye, horn players of the Boston Symphony Orchestra will be the assisting artists at tonight's concert. The members of the quartet are Norbert Lauga, first violin; Clarence Knudson, second violin; Jean Cauhape, viola; and Yves Chardon, all of whom are also members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...revelations about Miss Bow's private affairs might have injured her popularity. Having decided to take a chance, Fox did more. It chose as a vehicle for Cinemactress Bow a story as crude as possible. Author Tiffany Thayer's Call Her Savage. As the heroine of this opus, Miss Bow is called upon to show the sexual glamour for which she is celebrated by beating a rattlesnake to death with a horsewhip, flaying a half-breed Indian, marrying a libertine (Monroe Owsley) and knocking him unconscious, blacking the eye of her husband's mistress (Thelma Todd), practicing...