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...model to demonstrate how the 10-oz. heart moves a total of 20 tons of blood daily. After the "Man" exhibit, most interest focused on the physical culture section. This shows with models and pictures the various laws which govern the structure and functions of the body. Scenes depict how various peoples and bodies at various times get their exercise...
Unique in its tone, The Sportsman is not for the ringside habitué, not for the occasional "hunter" who combs the hills once each year for a legal maximum bag of game, not for the bleacher authority on batting averages. Its rich illustrations depict gentlemen riders taking jumps handsomely: "Mr. Lewis Lacey . . . leads Mr. Hopping over the boards in the third match at Meadow Brook"; a priest blessing the hounds of Chagrin Valley Hunt Club before the chase...
...purposes and circulated among Harvard groups throughout the country, would in many cases be of great value to education generally. We plan not only to record the professors speaking, but also to show them illustrating their experiments and making their demonstrations of scientific materials, and we expect also to depict the subjects about which they are talking. The studio and recording machines have been so arranged that, although the professor may gradually disappear, his voice continues, describing the scenes which replace him on the screen. The silent films of the Foundation have met with such splendid response whenever shown...
...letter to officials of the Calcutta Markets Committee: "Honored Gentlemen: "Herewith I make application to erect at my own expense a life-sized marble statue of the undersigned in the centre of the Calcutta Central Market. It is my intention to engage a leading British or English sculptor to depict me seated among my vegetables and holding a prize cabbage in one hand (left) and a giant carrot in the other (right). "Your obedient servant, Roy Mukerji Das." The startled Markets Committee, unable to think of a valid objection, approved, but referred the entire matter to the Calcutta Municipal authorities...
Strictly Dishonorable. In a speak-easy whose murals luridly depict the Bay of Naples, a gentle-spoken maid from Mississippi (Muriel Kirkland) is wooed in ripe Neapolitan style by a singer of the Italian nobility (Tullio Carminati). She scarcely objects, for she has just had an altercation with her boorish fiance from West Orange, N. J. (Louis Jean Heydt). Even though the Italian is so indelicate as to offer her a bed in his apartment over the saloon and boldly announces his intentions as "strictly dishonorable," she does not quail...