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...Goddess Ubasti from the 6th Century B.C. Comparable to great similar bronzes in the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum, the Cleveland Museum and the Bliss Collection in Washington, D. C., it possesses, as the museum eloquently pointed out, "in a static pose, the strength and snap of a taut bow string...
Yellow Jack's story goes from scientific detachment to taut drama, but always with a paucity of heroics, a leavening of lightness and brightness. Fashioned from the Sidney Howard-Paul de Kruif play of 1934. Edward Chodorov's cinema is firmly rooted in facts. It records, against a back-ground of Army life in Cuba, the defeat and heartbreak experienced in 1900 by General Leonard Wood (Jonathan Hale), Major William Crawford Gorgas (Henry O'Neill) and the commission headed by Major Walter Reed (Lewis Stone) in their long fight against the yellow peril. It makes no bones...
Cloth shrinks because its fibres have been stretched taut during weaving and finishing, and under the gentle massage of washing the fibres swell, relax and partially return to their original shorter dimensions. This phenomenon has pained no one so much as the shirt-wearing male -that is, until 1928. That year Sanford Lockwood Cluett of Cluett, Peabody & Co. invented Sanforizing-a mechanical method of preshrinking cloth back to its true dimensions. No wearer of even a $2 shirt now need tug apoplectically to button his collar after it has been washed...
...Though more and more social problem plays invade the Manhattan stage, few are good, none great, for good plays are written by gagmen, poets, wits, fakers but not by ax-grinders. Audiences still like Shaw and Ibsen, not for their lectures on social reform, but for their conceits, paradoxes, taut drama. Last week, in a muddled play that brought a famed U. S. actress out of retirement, this perennial fact was underscored again...
...used to the U. S. Congress. Then, with hands strapped, hood over his eyes, he pierced the chill silence with a shout, "A bas Washington!" (Down with Washington!). The trap was sprung and his body plumped down through the opening, jerked to a sudden stop as the rope became taut...