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...play which is a comedy in four acts, was written by deFlers and deCaillevet, a pair of French comedy playwrights, and was crowned by the French Academy. The coaching and directing of the play will be done by W. B. Cowan, Jr. '28, who produced the Cercle play last year...
...TIME, Oct. 5). Under their imprint appears little bawdry. Nevertheless, upon one of their books last fortnight was visited censorship. Last week the book began to sell rapidly. Entitled Peggy and Peter: What They Did Today ($2.50), it is a picture book for children, representing the activities of a pair of moppets and a Cairn bitch named Sally, all of whom posed for Photographer Lena Towsley. Before publication, a number of women scanned the volume, discovered a photograph which they disapproved. It showed Peggy & Peter (see cut) saying their prayers. The ladies objected. Puzzled but agreeable, Publishers Farrar & Rinehart deleted...
...Toil (The Bull on the Roof). Wiener soon afterward acquired a partner, one Clement Doucet who drifted into Le Boeuf to display an elaborate invention, part organ, part piano. The invention ir.ade slight impression on Wiener but Doucet's lazy, easy way of playing fascinated him. The pair went in for two-piano music, particularly for flowered transcriptions of U. S. jazz. Composers Igor Stravinsky and Maurice Ravel started going to hear them along with Composer Darius Milhaud, who named a pantomime Le Boeuf sur le Toit. Also went Writer Paul Morand, Painter Pablo Ruiz Picasso, Fisticuffer Georges Carpentier...
...fashioned stereoscope does what the living eyes do. A camera with two lenses makes two slightly different pictures. The pictures are carefully mounted side by side on a card which is placed before a pair of lenses fixed on a frame. The left lens shows only the left picture to the left eye; the right lens only the right picture to the right eye. The brain combines the pictures as solid effects...
...left and right pictures simultaneously or alternately. A person by straining his attention can learn to focus each eye on the proper view. Or, if he sits at a certain focal distance and angle from the screen, he can look through a stereoscope. Or he can hold a mechanical pair of lorgnettes before his eyes. The lorgnettes, which John Bellamy Taylor of General Electric used over 20 years ago, have shutters which rapidly and alternately blink the view of each eye. Viewing devices with special lenses, mirrors or prisms also permit stereoscopic effects. But each person in the audience must...