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...picture's main concession to period realism: Miss Oberon's remarkable hourglass figure, apparently devised by an efficient studio make-up department to set off her eye-popping 1900 wardrobe. Merle plays an unprincipled baggage who succeeds in marrying Archeologist George Brent over the protests of Brent's worldly friend and physician, Dr. Paul Lukas. After a few days in turn-of-the-century Egypt, surrounded by her husband's tiresome scientific friends, Merle gets a discontented look...
...these earliest Americans-Folsom Man, Sandia Man, Cochise Man-not a single bone has yet been found. But weapons, gnawed animal bones and camp sites indicate his existence beyond dispute. The first archeologist to find the authentic bones of a Pleistocene American will be the most famous digger in the Western Hemisphere...
Died. Dr. Theodore Leslie Shear, 64, Princeton University's famed archeologist, whose best-known excavation was the 1931-39 Rockefeller-financed ($1,200,000) unearthing of the market place of ancient Athens; of a heart attack; at Lake Sunapee...
Stocky Horace H. F. (for Howard Furness) Jayne learned to speak Chinese 21 years ago, as an archeologist for Harvard's Fogg Museum. Last week the vice director of the Metropolitan Museum was boning up again, this time to use the language on its home grounds. He is off soon to China to advise the Chinese on preserving their age-old art treasures...
...years one of the loveliest flowers of ancient Egyptian art bloomed unseen in the gloom of a Tell el-Amarna tomb. There, in 1912, German Archeologist Ludwig Borchardt unearthed the gracile head of Queen Nefertete ("The Beautiful One Has Come"), and quietly shipped it to Germany. In vain the Egyptian Government demanded its return. Nefertete stayed in the Berlin Neues Museum, and her swanlike beauty (in cheap reproductions) became world renowned...