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...stimulate yeast. Funk therefore proposed that Vitamin B was really two vitamins?B, the anti-neuritic, and D, the yeast-stimulating. Dr. E. V. McCollum, of Johns Hopkins University, one of the pioneer American investigators of vitamins, has also used the term Vitamin D for a factor present in cod-liver oil that prevents rickets...
...dramatized version of Joseph C. Lincoln's Cape Cod novel, "Shavings", has been so successfully presented by the Boston Stock Company in the past that it has become the regular Thanksgiving-week play at the St. James. If it has always been as skilfully done as it was Monday night, its popularity is not surprising; as a pleasing, easy-going, rather placid performance it was entirely satisfactory. As everyone knows, there is little or no excitement involved in "Shavings"; there are several passages of not too heavy pathos, but on the whole it runs along at a charming level...
...astounding how much the term "benefit concert" will do towards keeping away an audience from even really cod artists presenting an intelligent program. It is hard to understand how there should have been such a meagre audience at the concert of Albert Spalding and Edith Mason in behalf of the Radcliffe Endowment Fund last evening Symphony Hall...
DOCTOR NYE-Joseph C. Lincoln -Appleton ($2.00). When Doctor Nye came back to North Ostable his return and the reasons for it offered a perennial bonne bouche for all the gossips of Cape Cod, Why, the man had embezzled a church fund and gone to jail for it (and it was lucky his poor wife had died just before he was found out). How Doctor Nye rehabilitated himself against heavy odds-how he protected two young star-crossed lovers in spite of their warring families-how he finally established his innocence even in the eyes of his pompous brother...
...home of the bean and the cod...