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...some distance, however small, ahead. By the time Achilles reached that point, the tortoise would be a little ahead again. And so on to infinity -Achilles would never catch up. Wise & good men wrestled in vain with this prickly paradox until three 19th-Century mathematicians-Weierstrass, Bolzano and Cantor-demolished it by treating the mathematics of infinity realistically instead of mystically. They showed that an infinite class is no greater than some of its parts. The number of geometric points on a line a foot long is infinite. But the number of points on an inch of that line...
Into his place hopped popeyed Eddie Cantor, signed a contract that was something new in the big time...
...types of acts got a percentage of the box office-those that were so uncertain nobody wanted to pay them much, and those that were good enough to draw crowds. Nearest thing radio has to a box office is telephone-polling Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting (Crossley) surveys. Comic Cantor's pay, based upon...
Forty Little Mothers, the Cantor offering, was once Le Mioche (The Kid), a charming French film comedy, though the producers of Le Mioche might not recognize their baby. For once Comedian Cantor is unusually restrained. As a worried bachelor professor who furtively fathers an abandoned boy baby in a girls' seminary, Cantor limits his histrionics to planting wet smacks on the patient infant, singing one lachrymose ditty, Little Curly Hair. Once tears trickle down his nose. But smart Showman Cantor lets cute Baby Quintanilla, and scads of leggy little schoolgirls, among whom are Bonita Granville and Diane Lewis...
Unpleasant surprise: majestic Judith Anderson (the weird housekeeper of Rebecca) cast by one of Hollywood's amazing artistic lapses as a Cantor stooge...