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...Advancement of Science, admit that it is a mere guess. Two States have since passed laws like Tennessee's. Other states ban evolutionary textbooks from the public schools. Therefore, the executive committee of the A.A.A.S. at its spring meeting adopted a resolution, prepared by famed Drs. Edwin Grant Conklin, Samuel Jackson Holmes, Henry Fairfield Osborn, John Campbell Merriam and Robert Andrews Millikun, published in Science, setting forth, "the present status of Evolution" in four points...
...spite of their great salaries many money-hungry cinemactors have ways of making money besides acting. Critic Regina Cannon (New York American) listed the extra-studio businesses of various stars: John Gilbert, Antonio Moreno, Thomas Meighan-financing real estate developments; Mary Pickford- banking; Karl Dane-raising chickens; Chester Conklin-raising turkeys; Bessie Love-dairy farming; Lon Chaney-part-ownership in a plumbing company; Constance Talmadge-manufacturing cold cream; Lew Cody-automobile agency and part-ownership in a barber shop; Conrad Nagel and Jack Holt-stockyards at Fresno, Calif.; Renee Adorée-French restaurant...
...reacting to dramas and pictures that are meant to be frightening. They laugh. Their laughter, of course, is not an expression of humor but simply of nervousness, a way of reminding themselves that it's all make-believe. When an insane murderer fixes his gaze on Chester Conklin's twitching face, they laugh; when a hairy hand comes out of a wall and yanks a beautiful girl into a secret passage, they laugh; they laugh at abduction, poisoning, ghosts. That the squeals of expected, shivery laughter greeted this adaptation of one of Owen Davis' less terrifying plays...
...summary follows. HARVARD SECONDS YALE SECONDS Harding, l.e. r.e., Gile Upton, l.t. r.t., Smith Dwinnell, l.g. r.g., Simmons Warner, c. c., Gwin Brown, r.g. l.g., Wade Johnson, r.t. l.t., Hitchcock Lewis, r.e. l.e., Fiske Owens, q.b. q.b., Cruikshank Pierce, l.h.b. r.h.b., Conklin Kiser, r.h.b. l.h.b., Wiener Coveli, f.b. f.b., Ward...
HARVARD YALE SECONDS SECONDS Lewis, l.e. r.e., Gil Upton; l.t. r.t., Smith Dwinnell, l.g. r.g., Simmons Warner, c. c., Givin Brown, r.g. l.g., Wade Johnson, r.t. l.t., Hitchcock Harding, r.e. l.e., Lambert Covel, q.b. q.b., Wells Owens, l.h.b. r.h.b., Conklin Kiser, r.h.b. l.h.b., Wiener Pierce, f.b. f.b., Ward...