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...nighttime" character, who would not go for a walk on a spring day because "the world burns inside us, not outside us." The father's queerness had taken various forms in his children: Emilie had left home to pleasure, not better herself; Susanne was a quiet religious maniac; Otto wanted to be an artist but had to work for his living...
...assistant at the observatory and collaborator in research, he had moments when his equation felt the lack of some unknown quantity. When a pretty girl student made eyes and legs at him, he began to blunder toward a solution. But the answer he hit on wore spectacles. Meantime young Otto was struggling with the agonizing fractions of adolescence: he suspected his best friend and his mother of at least wanting to be lovers, and because none of them had the wit to stop him in time, ran off one night and drowned himself. Richard found he was less pure...
...Wasn't that well done?" was the comment of the Lady-In-Front as the last flicker of "Vanessa" vanished from view and a satisfied audience dragged out of the University. Robert Montgomery and Helen Hayes are teamed together again and supported by a notable cast including Otto Krenger and Lewis Stone who do their usual fine work. Taken from Hugh Walpole's best seller, the story is extremely well handled but like many another fine book is a little cramped. So few scenes for such a long story involves much being taken for granted...
...Angeles, with Otto Klemperer safely signed with the Philharmonic for three years, $98,000 of the $150,000 expenses for 1935-36 have already been raised...
...eagles swoop on the stinking feast from their five-foot-wide nests in the trees of Cat's Skin Mountains. Observers have been able to approach within 400 ft. of the birds. A truckman's wife counted 30 at one time through her field glasses. Ornithologist Alfred Otto Gross, who had never seen more than four eagles together, went skeptically down from Bowdoin College, beheld with his own marveling eyes 25 great scavengers grouped at their horrid feast. Reporting to the National Association of Audubon Societies last week that migrating as well as Maine eagles composed the group...