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With the birth of Tennessee Valley Authority and other New Deal power projects, President Roosevelt acquired an additional host of distinguished enemies. Last week he added a few more, making it crystal clear that he proposed to run his power lines by the same old sights. The occasion was a peace offer made by the public utility industry in the person of Thomas Nesbitt McCarter, president of Public Service Corp. of New Jersey. Mr. McCarter went to the White House to present a formal memorial to the President. Excerpts...
Muir's own corneas became opaque after a doctor spilled an anesthetic on them. Dr. Thomas located a hopelessly blind woman whose useless corneas were crystal clear and who was willing to give them to Mrs. Muir. Dr. Thomas peeled the corneas from the eyes of both women, ingeniously tied the clear corneas on Mrs. Muir's bare eyeballs. After a fortnight she could see again...
...bronze stairway was a red plush and Gobelin tapestry sofa (sold to Harry Jacobs for $410) on which Mr. Long and the late Ella Wilson Long used to sit only at Christmas when they gave presents to the servants. In the French salon beneath an enormous pear-shaped crystal chandelier (sold to Dr. Abraham Sophian for $470), was a walnut and gold-leaf player piano (to Mrs. John K. Jasper; $1,325), a matching walnut cabinet for music rolls (to Mrs. Victor Schutte; $87.50). A rose and ivory French hand-piled rug was appraised at $8,000, sold...
...Only one person had climbed to the top and uncovered the secret of the mountain, a comely Italian girl, banished from the village for suspicion of witchcraft. One day a young artist, attracted by her beauty, followed her to the "light" and discovered its cause, moonlight reflected through a crystal cavern. This was reported to the villagers who removed the precious rock, and by this act brought about the girl's tragic...
...inimitable W. C. Fields the leading picture this week is "You're Telling Me." With only the suggestion of a plot the film supplies a background for the antics of Fields, pantomine actor extraordinary and wisecracking humorist. As Sam Bisbee, local inventor, he supplies the quiet little town of Crystal Springs with gossip galore and is a match for the town's society leader whose son falls in love with the "unmentionable" Bisbee's daughter. Jean Marsh plays the daughter and is charming in the role. Larry Crabbe as the son of the society dame is adequate but colorless. Though...