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...play, entitled, by the way, "The Gray Shadow", take place in England, and has something or other to do with an attempted insurance fraud. Thanks to three or four obviously arch-villains who intermittently sneak about the dark corners of the stage the suspense is kept until the final unveiling of the Gray Shadow at the end of Act Three. Humor is provided by the village constable, and Joe Pepper the Taxi Driver, while Love is rather cursorily introduced by Diana Trent, the Ward of one of the villains, and Martin Scott, an inspector from the insurance company when...
Karl Schafer of Austria had more difficulty than he expected in beating his arch rival, Gillis Grafstrom of Sweden. Grafstrom, a week before the men's figure skating championship, had hurt his leg but was sufficiently recovered to take 1,496 points for his school figures and barely lose by 2,602 to 2,514.5. A debonnaire French couple, Met Mme Pierre Brunet, won the championship for pairs...
Advances in model making and testing, which should revolutionize the technique of bridge building and the construction of arch-containing structures, are now in the Engineering School. The work is done chiefly by graduate students and research fellows, among whom L. H. Johnson and D. E. Stearns are prominent, and is under the direction of Albert Haertlein, associate professor of Civil Engineering...
...Such an apparatus, which can be carried around in convenient sets, will often be the deciding factor in the choice of one kind of structure instead of another, as the strength of the arch or framework in proportion to its weight can be found out by constructing such models," he continued...
...newsman has watched Governor Roosevelt's career more intently or knows his political character better than Walter Lippmann, former editor of the old Independent New York World, now a free-handed political colyumist for the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune. Commenting last week on the fact that the Governor's message won the praise of such divergent elements as the staid New York Times and Montana's wild and unstable Senator Wheeler, Mr. Lippmann wrote...