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...Rudolph Lothar and Hans Adler. adapted by Jessie Ernst: A. H. Woods, producer). Baron Cassini (Francis Lister) is a bigwig of the Paris Bourse. Eugene Charlier (Francis Lister ) is a peewee entertainer at the Red Cat Cabaret. They look alike. When business reasons make it expedient for the Baron to be in two places at once, he goes to England while Charlier impersonates him at home. When the Baron returns, he hops into bed with the Baroness (Ruth Weston), thinking she thinks he is his double. Out of this situation Authors Lothar and Adler work the last bit of suggestiveness...
...crowds, always emphatically Italian in Manhattan, cheered Linari & Binda, billed as an imported road team, but they yelled loudest for their favorites, Franco Georgetti and Paul Brocardo. When the last hour began, Brocardo & Georgetti were riding desperately to keep a one-lap lead over two young Belgians, Adolph Charlier and Roger De Nef. Strong, ambitious, daring, Charlier & De Nef were in every jam, always dangerous, took three times as many points for sprints as anyone else. But in that last hour of a race in which there had been many accidents and in which all records since the Berlin system...
...Charlier!" "Lo, John!" "Have a good summer?" "Great! D'jou?" "Roaring! Damn good to see you again. Gotta be moving. See you later...
...Gold medals of the Academy for 'distinguished scientific achievement were awarded to: Otto Sven Petterson, Sweden, for studies in the chemistry and physics of the sea; Arthur Stanley Eddington, Cambridge, Eng land, for his interpretation of the Einstein theory applied to astronomical problems; C. V. Ludwig Charlier, Sweden, for contributions to astronomy; Bashford Dean, Columbia, for his Biography of Fishes; William Morton Wheeler, Harvard, for his Ants of the American Museum Congo Expedition; Ferdinand Canu, Versailles, France, for his study of the North American Bryozoa (small marine animals). The medals to foreign scientists were received by their respective embassies...
...Charlier is Sweden's most famous astronomer, and is widely known as an authority on the mathematical theory of statistics...