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...slips when it says that the two daughters of Alfonso's Queen, Victoria Eugenia, "by the implacable laws of hemophilic heredity are carriers themselves." Actually, each of them has a 50-50 chance of being free of the taint. Victoria Eugenia is a carrier having one normal X chromosome and one X carrying the hemophilia gene. Each of her children, sons and daughters alike, received one of these chromosomes and for each of them it was a 50-50 chance which one they got. If they inherited her normal X chromosome they are as free from the hemophilic taint...
Medieval and Renaissance Choral Music (Choir of the Pius X School of Liturgical Music, conducted by Mother Georgia Stevens, R.S.C.J.; Victor: 12 sides; $6.50). As glowing as a rose window, these early church melodies are sung to perfection by Mother Stevens' famed female choristers. (The Pius X School trains liturgical teachers chiefly, since women are ordinarily not supposed to sing in Catholic churches.) As result of a mix-up in pressing, however, Tenor Melchior (see above) displaces the choir on one record...
Divorced. Barbara ("Poor Little Rich Girl") Hutton, Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow, 28, five-and-dime heiress ($20,000,000); from Danish Count Court Haugwitz-Reventlow, 44, as the decree signed by Denmark's King Christian X became final. Son Lance, 5, will spend most of the year with his mother. His father will spend the next few days in a hospital. He fractured a shoulder skiing at Sun Valley...
...rights, the film should just be a dated straggler on the U. S. screen. Yet Director Julien Duvivier's camera has caught such an accurate X-ray of a tortured mind, it deserves a gold star on any list. Pépé (Jean Gabin) is a jaunty Parisian jewel thief driven to bay in the Casbah, filthy, crowded native quarter of Algiers. There, like a stallion in a pasture of geldings, he rules the thieves and cutthroats, lives with a devoted but depressing native girl (Line Noro), dreams of the bright life of Paris. The decay...
...this, $5,300,000 in cash and kind has gone to the British. Some items: 100 ambulances; 10,000 cases of clothes and knitted goods; 21 X-ray units; 57,500 pairs of boots and shoes; 5,100 cots (with bedding) for air-raid shelters...