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...president, staged his production of Macbeth. Oxford's incomparably languid esthetes gathered afterward and drawled their appreciation far into the night-they praised the producer for the simplicity and emotion he had achieved, for his blending of hues, his startling evocation of Banquo's ghost. They devised precious phrases to explain his innuendos...
Radium is so precious therapeutically and so expensive that when a hospital loses its bit the loss stirs the community. Canton, Ohio, was thus excited last week by the disappearance of a quarter-inch tube of radium worth $5,000, at Aultman Hospital. Hospital officials sent for Professor Samuel James Mclntosh Allen of the University of Cincinnati to help them find...
...order that this precious survivor of that disaster might be preserved more carefully and treated more reverently, eight Harvard graduates united to secure a silk-lined, levant morocco-covered, asbestos box in which it is kept in the Library Treasure Room. The donors were G.H. Norcross '75, E.H. Baker '81, J.P. Parmenter '81, Albert Matthews '82, Percival Merritt '82, J.A. Noyes '83, G.L. Kittredge '84, and S.W. Phillips...
Ways Out. Suggested remedies to the possible gold shortage are: 1) substitution of some other precious metal (e. g. silver) for gold as standard; 2) a variation in the weight of the gold dollar; 3) establishment of an international commission for the regulation of gold production and distribution...
...British Government is said to have compiled a secret list of twelve paintings, now in private British collections, which authorities consider too precious to let England lose at any price. If such a list exists it could hardly fail to include Titian's Diana, and Actaeon, Reynolds' Master Crewe, Romney's Gower Children, Raeburn's The MacNab, Gainsborough's-portrait of Anne, Duchess of Cumberland (owned by the King), Lawrence's Lord Lyndoch, two of Lord Ellesmere's Raphaels, or Rembrandt's Rabbi in a Chair. One picture which might well have...