Comedy promises and star notes in Hollywood chatter
Hollywood gossip notes Patsy Kelly Lyda Roberts replace Thelma Todd in a new Keystone style comedy and mentions of stars Mary Pickford Dick Powell Joan Crawford and Anne Shirley. It covers Dracula's Daughter Stage Struck and Technicolor projects with anecdotes on makeup, luck, and industry trends.
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Patsy
Kelly
Lyda Roberts
Lyda
Thelma
Todd
Keystone
Charles Bickford
Marriage Linked to Longer Life, Study Finds
Metropolitan Life Insurance Bulletin reports married men and women live longer and have lower death rates from flu, pneumonia, tuberculosis, heart and other diseases. Among ages over fifteen, bachelors show 1,218.2 per 100,000 versus 855.9 for married men. spinsters 1,039.1 versus 856.6 for married women.
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New York
The
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Statistical Bulletin
Windshield Filter Aids Color Blind Drivers
Seattle researchers propose a windshield device using red and green filters to let color blind drivers distinguish traffic lights. A prism over each filter allows viewing through both, with variations including perforated filters to mark red and green objects by brightness and spots.
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Seattle
Thomas Ross
University of Washington
Ross
Hairpin Travels to Woman’s Appendix in Flint Tale
In Flint Michigan a hairpin traveled to a woman's appendix, an event described as amazing. Dr. C. MacGregor removed the appendix after rupture. the object’s size surprised medical observers, though such foreign matter in appendices has occurred before. The woman recovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flint, Mich
4. C. MacGregor
Nordic Type Least Numerous in the U S Says Harvard Scientist
Harvard professor E A Hooton reports from a New Haven meeting that among three major American samples the pure Nordic type is only 2.25 percent, with Nordic mixed types forming the largest groups Nordic Alpine Mediterranean and related scales include Dinaric Hast Baltic and Keltic types. He finds similar racial percentages across groups and notes no scientific basis for racial crime or superiority, while linking certain types to crime tendencies such as Keltics with sex offenses and Nordic with forgery.
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E. A. Hooton
Harvard University
New Haven
American Association of Physical Anthropologists
Hooton
Harvard
Boston
Nashville
Century of Progress
Chicago
Glare Tolerance Device From Chicago Inventors
A patent from Washington covers a glarometer by W A Mendelsohn and CF Shepard that measures how much glare eyes can endure. The device projects adjustable glare onto screens to gauge when the light blinds the observer, guiding prescription of tinted glasses for protection.
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Washington
Chicago
W A Mendelsohn
CF Shepard
Monument to the Dog at Leningrad Institute
A bronze Monument to the Dog will be erected at the All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine in Leningrad. Academician I. Pavlov urged the project honoring the dog’s role in medical research. The statue features a sitting dog with bas-reliefs depicting moments from Pavlov’s experiments.
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Leningrad
All-Union Institute of Experimental Medicine
I. Pavlov
Atlavlov
Carrier Pigeon No. 158 Becomes Nurmi of the Air in Yokohama
An interview from Yokohama describes carrier pigeon No. 158 of Nichi Nichi shimbun fame. The bird carries film and manuscripts to Tokio, completing a 19 mile route in nine minutes, and boasts a 100 percent return record. It explains training, speed, and dangers from hawks and hunters.
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Yokohama Harbor
Tokio
Nichi Nichi
A &Coop
Nichi Nich
Toklo
Yokohama
Reassurance Over Heart Murmurs and Epilepsy Misconceptions
Drills of reassurance for heart conditions urge patients to live normally if not in danger and to avoid worry. Epilepsy is misperceived as incurable. convulsive states can be controlled by diet and medicine, enabling people to work and live normally with proper care.
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Sir Maurice Cassidy
British Medical Journal
Cassidy
Henry Alsop Riley
Neurological Institute
Medical Social Service Section
Welfare Council of
New York City
Riley
Aspires to Humility and Everyday Wisdom
A collection of aphorisms on humility, ambition, happiness, and self reliance. It urges counting small blessings each day, avoiding pretension, and making the most of oneself. It notes that missteps teach, luck fades, and even weather forecasters err.
Capudine Provides Quick Relief From Various Pain Ailments
Capudine promises rapid relief for headache neuralgic and nerve pains due to its liquid form. It claims instant dissolution of ear and eye tension and notes it is gentle and effective. The ad states physicians and druggists approve Capudine and that it contains no opiates. Available at drug stores for 60c or 30c.
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Preduste, Inc
23Rd St
Long Island City
N.Y
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Dick Powell
Rudy Vallee
Marion Nixon
Joan Crawford
Franchot Tone
Pioneer Pictures
Stett Dunn
Hoot Gibson
Harry Carey
Henry B. Walthall
New Mexico
Texas Rangers
Ames
Leatrice Joy
Herbert A
Katharine Nepburn
Anne Shirley
Sexton
Herbert Brenon
Annie
Dex
Holly ‘Wood
Anne
Western Newspaper Union
Science Service
WNY Service
Mr Roses
U. S
Japan
Coprigh
WNU Bersice
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WNOD
Capudine
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Magnesia
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