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...just the insurance company's detective, sent to catch Miss MacKellar's husband who, in league with the marchesa, has been pilfering gems from the entire neighborhood. Helen MacKellar is the first star to make her bow with the new season. Pretty, blonde, possessed of a graciousness akin to that of Ina Claire, she does her best with the meagre opportunities Through The Night offer her. More impressive vehicles in which she has appeared include: Beyond The Horizon, Back Pay, A Good Bad Woman. Hot Rhythm. Producers of Negro reviews almost always make the mistake of trying...
...seven seconds later the drawing was reproduced in a receiving device at Mather Field, 75 mi. away, whence a squadron of bombers was sent to destroy the invaders. While the picture was being transmitted, Flyer-Artist Knight conversed with ground officers, elaborated on the scene. Based on a principle akin to telephotography, the radiophoto device was developed by Westinghouse Electric...
During the war Professor Salvemini belonged to the progressive group, akin to Socialists, and after the great struggle he became involved in conflicts with the Fascists. Then followed the famous Salvemini case of 1923, when, after difficulties with the university, he was arrested, tried, and acquitted, but mobbed by the Fascists. Following this trial Salvemini went into voluntary exile, which subsequently became permanent. Losing his citizenship he became a man without a country, and since that time has acted as the unquestioned intellectual leader of the anti-Fascists. Unqualifiedly opposed to Fascism, which he considers a backward step, Professor Salvemini...
Again, he reminds us that the songs were intended to be sung--and Professor Brooke's notes agreeably point their various musical settings; all Shakespere's language is that of poetry and ever akin to music. How much more so, then, in the case of the songs...
From the 20th Century point of view the lute is antique, almost obsolete.* Its name is derived from the Arabic al'ud (the wood). It is akin to the biblical instrument called the psaltery...