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...each of the outboard motors of a tri-motor plane is mounted a convex mirror permitting the pilot to see the whirling propeller of the centre engine, through the blades of the outboard propeller. If the centre "prop" seems to rotate in one direction or the other, the pilot knows that it is whirling faster or slower than the outboard. He manipulates his throttles until the centre "prop" seems to stand stockstill. When both outboards have been tuned with the centre, the "waah-waah" ceases...
...name of India, Haiti, South Africa, Finland and 70 more nations. The U. S. wreath?not laid by Ambassador Sackett. who was in Paris-was deposited by a grave personage whose dry wit is concealed on public occasions by his Buddha-like mien. Councilor John Wiley, chief prop of Ambassador Willys in Poland. Read the wreath which Mr. Wiley deposited at the foot of Goethe's sarcophagus: The United States of America in commemoration...
...Lost Squadron is the first picture manufactured by RKO since young David Selznick became production head of RKO-Radio and RKO-Pathe. It will be to the advantage of all concerned if the picture is typical of forthcoming RKO products. Good shot: a group of assistant directors, script writers, prop boys and cameramen waiting to start work, with Von Stroheim standing above them, on a pedestal beside the camera, bawling orders...
...fear of marriage. Producers saw the novelty coincident to reversing the plot of the deserted girl. Abandoned by the honest young man, our maiden decides to play an age--old game with the none too platonic lawyer. She soon moves into an apartment of a magnificence which only movie "prop" mon can know. She fails to develop her side of the relationship, however, and presently appears in scenes of tragic squajor. An acute apondectomy is the event that brings her to the young doctor's hospital where he is the one who must operate. It is his first operation...
Last week Dr. John C. Neill, assistant professor in ophthalmic mechanics at Pennsylvania State College of Optometry, pretended that he had ptosis, to demonstrate to a meeting of the American Academy of Optometry a new lid prop he had devised. To the nosepiece of his spectacles he had soldered two pieces of fine, stiff gold wire, bent to fit the upper curves of the eye sockets, forming non-irritating, comfortable hangers on which Dr. Neill's lids hung like little coats...