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...tomb found last year by Dr. G. A. Reisner '89 of the Harvard University--Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition there will be brought to light no treasures of gold and skillfully worked jewelry. There will be discovered no intact furniture and no completely preserved mummy of a great pharaoh. The Egyptain government, warned by the world fame and furor caused by the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb, has taken every precaution to prevent the story from coming to the public through the press. Egyptain newspapers have been forced to keep absolute silence and very little has come...
...Fine Arts and the authorities as the University have received, in the official reports which are few and far between, the only authentic information which has come to the United States. Since last year it has been generally known that a tomb of some significance was found by Dr. Reisner but nothing has been said with regard to the circumstances of the find and the probable value of the tomb...
...originally dashed off in all seriousness by Harold MacGrath, who never wrote a funny thing in his life. Director Reisner has added certain obvious touches of humor, and Syd Chaplin's latest crop of gags has complete the remodelling. Why they over bothered about MacGrath's story in the first place one can scarcely say. It would have been much better to start clean; so to speak...
...Christian F. Reisner of the Methodist Church said...
...July 13 last, TIME printed a story which stressed the prominent part played by a donkey, a lemonade stand, an ice cream booth, at the ground-breaking ceremonies of Dr. Reisner's Broadway Tabernacle, Manhattan. The Christian Century "rewrote" this story, without mentioning the fact that it had rewritten it from TIME. When Dr. Reisner wrote a letter to TIME denying that the ground-breaking ceremonies had been unChristlike, undignified, TIME printed his letter (TIME, Aug. 31) but made public note of the fact that the Christian Century had also misrepresented Dr. Reisner-as much as to imply that...