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Dates: during 1920-1929
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3) The Mt. Wilson Observatory expedition, of the Carnegie Institute, of Pasadena, Cal., headed by Dr. Walter S. Adams, will observe the eclipse from two stations besides the main observatory, including one at Point Lonia, near San Diego. About 98.5% of the sun's disk will be covered at Mt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Shadow | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

About 117 well-fed motion picture producers are gnashing in the neighborhood of 1,000 gold teeth over the tidings that Rudyard Kipling has parted with the film rights to Kim. The gnashing is particularly reverberant owing to the fact that he has given them to an amateur in the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Film Rights to Kim | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

In actual fact Miss Adams is not such an amateur as the majority may suppose. Ever since her recovery from the illness which cut short her tour in 1918 she has been busy studying stage lighting and the mechanics of motion pictures. Her laboratory has been buried in some obscure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Film Rights to Kim | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

Last Spring she slipped quietly abroad under the misleading but accurate name on the steamship lists of M. Kiskadden. She took her plan to Kipling. He immediately raised two objections but Miss Adams anticipated them before he could put them into words. They were:

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Film Rights to Kim | 9/3/1923 | See Source »

Later in the day the new President started by special train to Washington, where he arrived late in the evening. He and Mrs. Coolidge went to the Willard Hotel, which has been their Washington home. He held conferences on succeeding days in his old offices in the Senate building. He...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Calvin Coolidge | 8/13/1923 | See Source »

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