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...morning except Sunday a herd of scholars scampers hastily up the steps of Widener Library, swishes through the turnstiles, rounds the marble stairways in stride, and finally deposits an overnight book on the Reading Room desk. The return journey is completed with equal haste, minus a few tedious and precious minutes while the unsmiling book inspector carefully Philo Vances every brief case, lawyers bag, and simple booksatchel. Such expenditure of energy and valuable pre-nine-o'clock time is not only highly inconvenient but unnecessary...
According to Dr. Hsiung, Lady Precious Stream is a play of some antiquity. Chinese actors refer to the whole legend as "The Eight Acts about the Wang Family." Fragments of the third and fourth acts, explains Dr. Hsiung, are often presented on the Chinese stage when the bill wants a touch of humor. Two scenes of the second act, on the other hand, are used "for a program which we did not wish to become too hilarious." Occidentals are likely to find that Lady Precious Stream is, in its own way, fairly hilarious all the way through...
...Wise Men still are with us and as wonderful today As on that ancient morning by a cradle lined with hay. They hand us not the incense or the precious oils of old, But an interest in birthdays that the years have not dispelled...
Producer Morris Gest announced in Manhattan that the only native actress in the old Chinese fantasy Lady Precious Stream, which opened this week in Manhattan, would be Yuen Tsung (''Maimie") Sze, daughter of Chinese Ambassador to the U. S. Sao-ke Alfred Sze. Pretty, bang-haired "Maimie" Sze has not seen China since she was 5. Educated in the U. S. and England, she was president of her Wellesley class (1931), has since spent most of her time painting. Of her forthcoming stage career she said: "It's not entirely fun. ... I feel honored...
Interested in the possible value of the element for cancer therapy. Chemist von Grosse took a photomicrograph of his precious mite by the light of its own rays. The pictures showed something like a glowing shoe-button. Then he turned the stuff over to Chicago's Museum of Science & Industry to be placed on exhibition. The museum furnished visitors with a magnifying glass by which to inspect the speck, too small to be seen with the naked...