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...violins, plotted their ups & downs on a graph. These indicated that there was practically no difference between the tone quality of a Strad or Guarnerius and of a fine new instrument. The scientist then had a violinist play a Strad and two new violins behind a screen, asking an audience-many of whom were musically erudite-to tell which was which. Only about a third guessed right, and this number would be expected to guess correctly oft the basis of pure chance...
...woes by staggering into the University Theatre and letting his mind go blank for a couple of hours. But not so with the current show. Any exam as involved as "Another Thin Man" would be run out of college by the Dean's Office. Sinister characters wander across the screen throwing knives and shooting each other in bewildering confusion. Of course, by the end of the picture, the whole plot is very simple,--to William Powell. But script-writers, playing their merry game of hide-and-seek-the-murderer with the audience, seem to have overstepped the bounds of sportsmanship...
...usually placid body its biggest political sensation in many a year. In a speech studded with such caustic remarks as "This neutrality is idiocy," he declared: "The meeting last October of four heads of Northern States, with its fascinating display of Nordic solidarity, was only a grandiose and beautiful screen behind which the practical cooperation that was the urgent need of the hour has been quietly torpedoed...
...answered a query on the correct Allied policy after Versailles. "I am a writer of novels, essays and so on, and painting and drawing is my trade. I am far more interested in the Central American art being shown at present in the Fogg Museum, or in Korin's screen in the Boston Museum, than I am in anything political...
...dashing Essex, Errol Flynn, moons through his scenes like a self-conscious school boy. And as if this were not enough of an indignity, the adapters of the play have handed her a script which has been completely stripped of its poetic beauty. It seems a pity that the screen did not have the daring to use Mr. Anderson's blank verse which was so effective when the play ran on Broadway a few years ago. This was almost a fine picture rather than merely a good one, but it muffled its opportunity...