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Usually the vast court of the John Wanamaker Store in Philadelphia is thronged with scuffling folk intent on rummaging through counters of merchandise in search of bargains. One night last week a greater crowd than ever before crammed its way into this pillared space, now swept of every vestige of merchandise. They had come to hear a concert, attend a reception given by Rodman Wanamaker in honor of Thaddeus Rich, concert master of the Philadelphia Orchestra. From the first grand chord of the organ prelude to the last lingering vibration of Soloist Rich's violin the audience were silent...
...finale, the Baron, of course, turns out to be the Count de Varigny as a Mr. Hyde in search of unrequited Romance with a green-panelled Elsie de Wolfian apartment for the entertainment of his amatory experiments. After a very tiring tete a tete supper the Count discovers that Miss Bainter is the be loved of his son and there follows forgiveness, reconciliation, and the happy ending, (500,000 francs...
...London, Engineer John L. Baird, experimenter in wired television (TIME, Feb. 22), demonstrated his success at utilizing rays adjacent to the visible spectrum-invisible infra-red rays-to see things in complete darkness by mechanical means. The process involved isolating the invisible rays at their source (a special "search-light") and passing them through or to a medium that would render their effect visible. Since infra-red rays can be cast farther than any visible rays, and will penetrate fog and smoke more readily, the inventor predicted important military uses...
...Armored Cruiser Prince Potemkin. In search of Broadway favor came three foreign films last week: Faust (German), Michael Strogoff (French), Potemkin (Russian). Potemkin has been called the supreme achievement in cinema. The scenario follows the simple historical account of mutiny aboard the Imperial Russian cruiser, Prince Potemkin, in the year 1905. It dallies with no hero, no heroine, no plot complication. The drama is of the crew, the human beings who scrub, polish, mother the steel monster and are fed, in return, with wormy meat. They protest. A sail cloth is thrown over 50 sailors, marines are ordered to shoot...
...Faithful to our tradition, you have maintained freedom for both teachers and students to search for the truth and to report what they believe they have found...