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...medieval scientific theories have always furnished much amusement to the people of this more enlightened age. Particularly have students enjoyed the anecdote that divines of the thirteenth century argued furiously the number of angels able to stand on the point of a pin. But the layman in his attitude toward science today is often stupid where the ancients whom he reads were merely uninformed. His conception of the action of a radio, or psycho-analysis is no more intelligent than their belief in the efficacy of a saint's bones or the spices from a mummy. And one wonders...
...Thirteenth Hour provides Lionel Barrymore with an opportunity to do a highly effective imitation of Lon Chaney imitating a three-fingered master crook. Despite his missing digit, Mr. Barrymore is capable of opening all kinds of sliding doors and secret panels; but he is incapable of stealing the picture from a police dog called Rex in the picture (real name Napoleon). Although at an important crisis he mistakes Mr. Barrymore for a wax dummy, this animal adds enormously to what would otherwise remain a not very startling reiteration of the Jekyll-Hyde theme complicated by stupid detectives...
...text. In commenting on this fact and on the lack of substantiating footnotes, the reviewer is fully aware of the difficulty of obtaining authoritative matter strictly relevant to the particulars of the subject in hand. For it must be remembered that the Mongol of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries were for the most part illiterate. Most of the contemporary accounts of Genghis Khan must be sought in works in Chinese and Persian...
Other of the Museum's own paintings on display are a thirteenth century Byzantine "Madonna" another "Madonna" of the Bellini School, and a "Visitation" by Zeitbiom...
Professor Goldschmidt's topic will be "Romanesque Churches from the Tenth to the Thirteenth Century," and the lecture will be illustrated by copious lantern slides...