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...Isadora Duncan's many loves came three children, all of whom died before she did. Her theories on dancing? the classic, plastic picture, the lively interpretation of non-ballet music, the accomplished foot-work?she handed on to her six adopted daughters. Of these. Margot is dead. Erica retired. Therese married Manhattan Art Dealer Stephan Bourgeois. Lisa of the pretty blonde curls has turned modernist, dances in Paris. Dark, classic-featured Anna was once the leader of the group, toured the U. S. some ten years ago with Lisa and Margot. Because of stories about Isadora's Communistic leanings they...
...this picture he has two of them to threaten. He hits neither and only kicks the one who deserves it (Virginia Bruce). She is a lady of patrician manners and gutter instincts, attracted to Cagney by his potato nose and inflated ear. When he has these improved by a plastic surgeon, she likes him less; on the night of his fight for the lightweight championship she is planning to sail for Havana with another admirer. Cagney hears about it in the ring. "Call me a taxi," he tells his second. Then he knocks out his opponent, races to the pier...
...similar new plastic reported last week from Yardville, N. J. is "thiokol," product of ethylene dichloride and sodium polysulfide. Inventor is Dr. Joseph C. Patrick...
Capt. Hawks's nose and jaw were fractured, his face badly battered, several of his big, white teeth knocked out. He lay unconscious in the hospital for hours. Said Harvard Medical School's famed plastic surgeon, Dr. Veraztad Hovannes Kazanjian: "I do not think his speech will be affected. The operation for restoring his face should leave scarcely a scar.'' Capt. Hawks's good friend Will Rogers wired: "Sure glad nothing broke but your jaw. That will keep you still for a while. If I broke my jaw, I could still wire gags. What...
Known as R-B-M (Robertson-Bonded-Metal), the new steel is an amalgamation of three substances. Pure steel is coated with an alloy of tin, lead or zinc. The alloys are then heated to a temperature just beyond the plastic point but below the liquefaction mark. At this temperature felts can be cemented to the alloys. Upon cooling the felt adheres to the steel by means of the adhesive alloy. On the felt may be grafted further coatings-of asbestos, cellulose, imitations of wood, silk, jewels. The new metal may be rolled, drawn, pressed, corrugated. Chief difficulty...