Vamps Endure as Modern Screen Vampires Change Style
Hollywood columnist Robbin Coons notes the shift from silent era Theda Bara to talkie vamps. Modern vamps boast new nerve, vivacity, and flirty mechanisms, with Greta Garbo, Clara Bow, Fifi Boray, Edna Purthy, Lily Damita, Garbo, Helen Kane and others redefining danger and allure while preserving the vamp’s peril to heroes.
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Clara Pow
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Fifi Borsay
Edna Purphy
Lily Damita
Garbo
Helen Kare
From Prague to Radio: Harrilla Barritta’s English Triumph
Harrilla Barritta, born in Czechoslovakia and raised in Bridgeport, conquered language barriers by age 12. He built a radio career with a distinct speaking voice, sings on air, and credits hard work and study over natural gifts. He credits mentors like Percy Rector Stephens and later found success after serving in World War I and studying at New York University. His first Carnegie Hall concert preceded roles on stage, while his diverse background shaped his radio persona.
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Percy Rector Stephens
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York University
Herrilla
Carnegie Hall
New York
Women Solicitors Aiding Crime War In Chicago
Spectators in Chicago follow efforts to reduce crime as the Chicago Woman's club, now five years old, promotes civic welfare. The group ran the city’s first juvenile court, supported vocational education for public schools, opened the first nursery school in a public school, and founded the protective agency for women and children.
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Chicago
Chicago Woman's Club
United States
Protective Agency For Women and Children
Women urged to equalize nationality rights at Hague conference
Through its president Dr Mary E Woolley the American Association of University Women urged President Hoover to grant women the same right as men to change or maintain nationality. Nationality is to be discussed at the codification of international law conference meeting at The Hague March 15.
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Mary E. Woolley
American Association of University Women
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Wyeth
Delegates urged to back equal rights on nationality for women
The text calls United States delegates to vote for a measure granting women the same nationality rights as men and urges inclusion of women with international law experience in the government delegation.
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United States
Moonshiner Named Top Source in Bootlegging Says Doran
Dr James M Doran federal prohibition commissioner says the moonshine trade is the biggest source of Habit liquor. He notes enforcement shifted tactics over ten years under the Volstead act with many sources including pure whisky alcohol rum row and denatured alcohol. He cites three thousand moonshine distilleries destroyed last year as enforcement climax.
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Washington
James M. Doran
Dr. Doran
Suit Over Dead Canary Bird Costs Berlin
Berlin courts spent six months and 10 sessions on a case about a dead canary bought by Arthur Moeser from Herr Sorge for 3.60. Sorge claimed payment. Moeser refused after the bird died. Verdict: Moeser pays 3.60 plus 7 percent interest and court costs of 100.
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Arthur Moeser
Herr Sorge
Sorge
Herr Moeser
Moeser
Brain amplifiers map sound direction in head
Dr James W Papez at Cornell reports a brain sound amplifier called the superior olive. A tiny bundle of nerves on each side of the head receives sound images from a small nerve and passes them along. The devices may help explain how we locate sound, though proof remains elusive.
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Howard W. Slakeslee
Associated Press
Ithica
N. Y
James W. Paper
Cornell University
Papez
Olives act as neural switchyards in hearing, says Dr Papez
Functioning like switchyards of a complex railway system the olives convey sound through a network of nerves. Sounds travel from the inner ear to a nucleus and then to larger fiber tracts with two main lines crossing between ears. Within olives signals are redistributed and rerouted to hundreds of tracks then pass to the inferior epilculus and finally to a knee shaped body for further dispersion. Cats have larger olives and share similar amplifier structures with humans.
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Papez
Inferior
Epliculus
Deadly Gas Lurks in Metal Mines
Washington report warns miners face a wider and more dangerous array of gases in metal mines than coal mines. Methane, hydrogen, carbon dioxide, sulfur compounds, carbon monoxide and other gases pose unseen hazards, with deadly potential in poorly ventilated workings.
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Washington
Bureau of Mines
American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers
Radio Blues Sung By A Six Year Old
Six year old Adelaide Kauffian performs blues on KPRC radio with a daytime role as a Sunday school pupil she enjoys radio work and participates in a skit titled Ted and Jo her favorite song is Blue.
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Adelside Kauffian
Ted and
KPRC
Adelaide
Hair Tonic Restores Color For Woman
A woman reports severe hair loss and graying improved after using Lea's Hair Tonic. She notices her hair returning to its former color and texture, expressing delight with the treatment.
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Beean
Lea
Lea's Hair Tonic Promises Restored Color and Vollume
Minnie Hersch of Scottsbluff Nebraska touts Lea's Hair Tonic as amazing reversing hair loss and greying after weeks of nightly scalp treatments. The testimonial notes smoother, evenly colored hair and a youthful look with a money back guarantee from Perriton'sPharmacy.
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Minnie Hersch
Ninth Avenue
Scotts+ bluff
Neb
Perriton
Vta Tonic Co
Brentwood
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