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Proud of Britain, fond of the U. S., Reporter Bullen found time and energy to be an indefatigable organizer of hands-across-the-sea movements. He started the American Shakespeare Foundation, helped the late Otto H. Kahn raise $1,000,000 to rebuild the Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon. He raised $300,000 for destitute Belgians, $5,000 for a memorial to Antarctic Explorer Scott, $15,000 "to provide pensions for necessitous grandnieces" of Charles Dickens. He organized the League of Remembrance of the U. S., to join with Great Britain in observing a two-minute silence...
...Crime Doctor (RKO-Radio) is suave Otto Kruger. As a famed criminologist, he plans and executes the "Perfect Crime" to avenge his wife's infidelity. His method: 1) A pretty blackmailer (Judith Wood) is planted as a spy in an apartment adjoining that of his wife's lover (Nils Asther); 2) Kruger steals a pistol from Asther's apartment; 3) he makes the blonde blackmailer write Asther a threatening letter; 4) he kills her with Asther's gun; 5) he plants the blackmail letter in the fireplace as a clue...
...Insurance Office, Ltd., with which Vickers-Armstrongs had a curious agreement that "if the profits (of Vickers) in any year during the five years ending December 31, 1932, do not amount to $900,000, then a contribution not exceeding $200,000 will be made in each year." Sir Otto Niemeyer, the infant phenomenon of British finance who first entered His Majesty's Treasury at the age of twenty-three, is another Vickers director; he is, addition, an officer of the Bank of England, a director of the Anglo-international Bank and the Bank of International Settlements...
...Save-Our- Symphony campaign (TIME, May 7 et ante) there had bobbed up many a contributor who wanted to know more about what U. S. composers were accomplishing. To that end Werner Janssen was signed up to serve with such established European conductors as Arturo Toscanini, Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer. Rochester was unwilling to commit itself on Dixie Fugue, a blaring, dissonant finale to a Louisiana Suite played heretofore only in Europe. But when the horns and kettle drums were still, Conductor Hanson held up the concert until Werner Janssen came down the aisle for a bow, his long head...
...present it is planned that Dr. Stevenson will work in collaboration with Dr. Jabez C. Street, Instructor of Physics, upon the general field of cosmic rays and nuclear structure. Dr. Frost will work largely with Professor Otto Oldenberg, Professor of Physics, on the study of chemical reactions by spectroscopic methods, with especial attention to unstable compounds, a field of considerable interest and novelty...