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...Bernt Evenson, star of the Norwegian team which was favored to win most points in the Winter Olympics, cut in behind him.- Evenson streaked into the last straightaway three yards behind but Shea had shaved the last turn closer and drew away to win by 5 yd. In the window of the general store at Hanover, where Shea works his way through college by waiting at an eating club, a placard announced his victory. His time-43.4 sec.-equalled the Olympic record. The 5,000-meter race was run off much more slowly in a slight flurry of snow. When...
...celebrated psychiatrist who visits their town. Eight years later, when his child is ill, the psychiatrist comes back to cure him, then suggests to the wife that they leave together. She, sensing the disaster which this would entail, prefers the personal catastrophe of watching his departure from the window, with her husband who still thinks the doctor's child is his own. The play lacks surface too much to be an ideal vehicle for the cinema in general or for Ruth Chatterton in particular. Her performance, like that of Paul Lukas, as the doctor, and the late Robert Ames...
Renting at $2.50 per reel for domestic projectors, or $5 for commercial machines, forthcoming Metropolitan movies will exhibit Painter Frank Weston Benson, smoking a pipe, and Painter Lawrence Saint, making a stained glass window for the Washington Cathedral. First of the series, released last week, exhibited Painter Hassam beginning his day as befits a rich, successful and not yet superannuated artist, by dictating letters to his pretty secretary, Virginia Rook, who is also his grandniece. Later Painter Hassam is seen showing some sketches to his wife, swimming at Southampton's Maidstone Club, whacking at a golf ball...
...three young men projected radium's beta (high speed electrons) and gamma (penetrating X-rays) rays out of that mica window. Left for duplication were radium's alpha particles, the nucleus of helium...
...young men.) Their machine consists essentially of a tesla coil under oil and a cascading cathode tube. The coil builds up an electrical potential to 3,000,000 volts. That enormous power is suddenly dumped into what is basically a series of X-ray tubes ending in a mica window...