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...brick-&-concrete structures on a 50-acre plot have been placed a collection of specially designed radio instruments. Dials and switches are strung along on racks as in a power station. Headphone connections are scattered on tables. Three Diesel engines run 50-kilowatt generators. Upstairs are sleeping quarters with a kitchen, so operators may live through a Nebraska blizzard. Outside on poles are miles and miles of antenna wire. One great loop is suspended 60 ft. above the flat ground. New York is brought into range with a Beveridge directional antenna. Other loops are pointed at London, Porto Alegre Brazil...
...Players, A. A. Milne's "Michael and Mary", has the elements of what is generally thought of as a charming English comedy. By no means the best of Mr. Milne's plays, Miss Kennedy and an able cast succeed in presenting it in a thoroughly entertaining manner. The disjointed plot that jumps from 1905 to 1930 without much continuity is not exactly exciting, but the author's gentle wit saves the play from becoming dull...
...Disraeli" and "The Green Goddess," the whole plot revolves around the characterization of one man. The details of the story are insignificant. The supporting cast is over-shadowed. The play is no longer the thing. It is carried along by Arliss...
...henchmen, Jack Zuta, was spattered to death by slugs last summer in a Wisconsin dancehall (TIME, Aug. 11). Rumor said that Bugs last week came out of hiding to: 1) negotiate with Capone for a beer-peddling and gambling job in the North Side he once had ruled; 2) plot, with Aiello, Capone's death. He was arrested, questioned. He joked police and newsgatherers: "Who killed Lingle [TIME, June 23, et seq.] and Zuta? That's easy -Santa Claus! . . . I'm a lover of outdoor sports . . . vice president of the Central Cleaners & Dyers ... a reputable businessman...
...scheduled to sit down with potent, brunet gentlemen to the momentous Indian Round Table Conference (see p. 20). Sixty-nine million Indians are Moslems. Most of their leaders fiercely suspect that British Governments over a period of years have been in a sort of white-man's-plot with the 172,000 Palestine Jews against the 750,000 Palestine Arabs, religious brothers of India's Moslems. Only recently, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was in London, did his fiery best to put the fear of Allah into Great Britain's Christian Cabinet...