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...dashed - after the service - Mrs. Parmely Herrick and Chargé d'Affaires Norman Armour of the Embassy. Mrs. Herrick had been distraught earlier in the day, had fainted, inhaled smelling salts, revived. She now ordered her chauffeur to speed up the Champs Élysées to the Arc de Triomphe, guarded only by a single poilu. Acting from pure impulse, without notifying the authorities, Mrs. Parmely Herrick had resolved to place a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, as a last tribute from Ambassador Herrick...
...Passion of Joan of Arc (French). You might not think there could be any new way of telling a story in pictures, until you see this film in which the trial and death of Joan of Arc are told, in silence, by the expression of faces not disfigured by make-up and photographed from all angles, mostly in closeup. Director Carl Theodore Dreyer, a Dane, is not concerned with history, except that he uses accurately and intelligently such evidence as the 15th Century has left him about the girl who saved her country from its enemies, and was later tortured...
Everywhere in Paris people mourned le brave Herrick. The ambassador, 74, had insisted five days before on taking full part in the funeral of his friend Marshal Foch (TIME, April i). He stood bareheaded in the cold mist at the Arc de Triomphe and walked in the cortege all the way from Notre Dame to Les Invalides. Two days later he complained of a cold. He went to bed. The next day heart specialists were called in. Parmely Herrick, the Ambassador's son, was called by trans-Atlantic telephone at his home near Cleveland. Just before dusk on Easter Sunday...
Excepting only the Unknown Soldier, the last hero to lie beneath the Arc de Triomphe up to last week was Victor Hugo, 43 years ago. The emotion of Frenchmen was keyed to such a pitch that even the official tellers of the Chamber of Deputies−men chosen for no other quality than their incorruptible honor−majestically lied when the Communist Deputies voted against a bill granting $12,000 to defray the expenses of the funeral. Though every Communist who had thus voted rose and blatantly proclaimed the fact, the official count showed that the bill had passed unanimously...
...physicians, patients and therapeutic lamp manufacturers to learn that the British Medical Research Council last week decried the use of light treatments. There are two general kinds of light used in medicine-heat-producing, generated by carbon filaments; and ultraviolet ray (artificial sunlight) producing, generated by a carbon arc, by a mercury arc, or by special filaments lighting through quartz. Undoubtedly such lights have done good. This is particularly so of the ultraviolet light, used to overcome rickets by direct exposure of puny children...