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Beginning today the unique Trans-Lux theatre presents another of its unusual programs featuring an excellent digest of the current news. In addition, the bill includes a diverting selection of short subjects: a color cartoon called "Little Moths, Big Flames"; "Screen Snapshots"; "Stranger Than Fiction"; "Athletic Oddities," narrated by the tongue-conscious Lew Lehr; "House-wife Herman," a Technicolor Terrytoon; and "Washington Parade...
Salter, in association with Thomas S. Sappington '37, and Miss Hildegarde Wilson, has found, by experimentation on mice, that insulin, thyroid extract, and anterior pituitary gland hormones contain protein substances. The stomach contains enzymes which break up and digest proteins; thus insulin or any other protein type of hormone, if swallowed as food or drink, is treated as protein material...
...dollar watch has to the Greenwich Observatory." This week Critic Anderson has published a richly illustrated book on the U. S. theatre,* turning its history into a swift, 100-page dash. His gulp-and-go-on method makes The American Theatre read like a Reader's Digest version of a massive tome; but if valuable matters are slighted, dull ones are junked. Some facts...
Meantime, along Roaring Brook Road in rural Chappaqua, N. Y., workmen are completing a big, red brick building that is already beginning to look a good deal like a village high school. Here all Digest clippers & snippers will soon move from their Pleasantville offices...
Here Mr. Wallace and his highly paid editor-condensers will continue to work out their plans to meet any emergency that may arise to curtail the Digest's diet-plans which include printing original articles along with advice to consumers on advertised products. Already the Digest is growing much of its roughage in its own back yard...