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There are two theories of how vowel sounds are made: 1) that the vocal cords vibrate, like rubbed violin strings; 2) that, like blowing a whistle or across a bottle mouth, puffs of air from the vocal cords excite resonances in the head cavities (pharynx, mouth, nose, sinuses). To confirm one or the other theory, Lee Edward Travis of University of Iowa's Psychopathic Hospital and Archibald R. Buchanan of the Department of Anatomy, cut the heads from a couple of dead men, suspended the heads by wires from a ceiling and up through the severed necks blew puffs...
...shop. His principal remaining asset, one large antique bed, was a problem which the timely arrival of Morris Rosenberg, a penniless fiddler, helped him to solve. Together they lugged it to Central Park. A lucky encounter with a Mr. Sweeney, street-cleaner with a yearning to play the violin, got them a D. S. C. hut to shelter them. Daytimes, Rosenberg fiddled for pennies on street corners, Mr. Otkar prowled around, stole occasional eggs. Evenings, Rosenberg taught Mr. Sweeney how to fiddle. When Mr. Otkar came back one night with Elizabeth, an idealistic prostitute, they all lived together as innocently...
When the world's largest ship, S. S. Majestic, nosed down Southampton Water last trip, she carried precious cargo. In the first cabin were Richard Bedford Bennett, Prime Minister of Canada', Novelist Mrs. Belloc Lowndes, Violin Prodigy Ruggiero Ricci, Rev. Cyril Argentine Alington, Headmaster of Eton College (see p. 38). In the hold were 311 boxes of gold -$15,000,000 worth-part of Britain's $95,550,000 War debt payment...
...husband. So long as Hamilton MacFadden, who directed and adapted the picture, follows this simple theme, fair program entertainment results. But after Office Girl (Sally Eilers) has married Boss (Ralph Bellamy) the triangle is rearranged as a maudlin contest between Bellamy and Helen Vinson for custody of their violin-playing prodigy daughter (Karol Kay). The picture as cut for its Hollywood preview included a scene which for its power to embarrass the audience took rank with anything recently produced by the cinema-Miss Eilers pressing to her lips various portions of a layette, including baby-shoes. Her baby died soon...
With her Siamese cat, husband, violin and 28 pieces of metal baggage, capable grey-haired Malvina Hoffman sailed into New York Harbor last fortnight. Three-quarters of the largest sculpture commission ever given a woman was completed...