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...these plays and others, it was a fortunate compulsion. Twins, are among the most engrossing of human phenomena. Twins are principal characters in The Bridge of San Luis Rey, brilliant best-selling novel by Thornton Wilder, himself one of twins. Almost every person includes in his acquaintance a pair of twins and contemplates their doings with delight and astonishment. For this reason, a wide interest attaches itself to a research begun last week by the University of California. Learned faculty members planned to assemble 500 pairs of twins and to study, with the utmost care, the details of their likenesses...
...less congenial than identical twins. Margaret ("Maggie") and Mary ("Puddin' ") Gibbs of Holyoke, Mass., reputedly the only U. S. born and bred Siamese twins, vaudeville artists, deny that they are identical. "We have different ideas of pleasure," they say. In England alcoholism and prohibition are united in one pair of Siamese twins...
...Crowden, physiologist of University College, London, made a 25 year study on a pair of identical twins. They had the same illnesses at the same time during this period. Their profile photographs superimposed in any year resulted in a perfect outline, with no marring double line. X-ray photographs of their skulls superimposed in every part, and their body measurements, height, weight were practically identical. Finger prints of one were mirror images of fingerprints of the other. The blood composition and count, the temperature and respiration rates were the same. They had the same temperaments and attitudes of mind. Accused...
...Garden of Eden. Toni Le Brun was fired from a smoke-blue Paris cabaret because she was naïvely virtuous. The wardrobe mistress (Louise Dresser), one of those quaint impoverished baronesses, adopted her, took her to Monte Carlo where the pair lived for a month on the savings of a year. In the garden of the Hotel Eden a rich young man (Charles Ray) makes love to Toni (Corinne Griffith). A marriage is arranged. Enraged by last-minute accusations of gold-digging, Toni tears off her wedding gown, runs through corridors in less & less until finally she encounters the Prime...
Some few hours later rich Mr. Eastman arrived at Cairo wearing one slipper, one shoe, a pair of dress trousers and the jacket of his green pajamas. He told how the train was finally stopped, when the sleeping car attendant managed to climb, catlike, over the swaying luggage van and into the cab of an engineer who knew his trade too well to look behind. Other passengers, all safe, were chiefly irate because their luggage had been destroyed when the two flaming coaches, which could not be extinguished, were uncoupled and allowed to burn to the rails...