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...Romance (RKO). The problem child of RKO, Ann Harding, appears always in pictures which take the pulse of such throbbing questions as the double standard, woman's place in the home or how much a girl should tell her fiancé. This time she is a celebrated facial surgeon, successful in her profession but harassed by longings for Romance. She marries a playboy (Robert Young) whose chief interests are listening to football games on the radio and looping-the-loop, only to discover her mistake in time to patch up after an airplane crash the face of the girl...
...other feature is "Love, Honor, and Oh Baby," a humorous burlesque upon heart balm suits. The facial expressions of Slim Summerville, Zasu Donald Meek, and George Barbier, united in one picture afford good comedy...
...will peter out in pestilence, famine, revolution and exhaustion ten years later. Its immediate cause: a Polish Jew with an ill-fitting dental plate. A passenger on a crowded train halted in Danzig station, he modestly turns his face to the window to struggle with the refractory plate. His facial contortions are misinterpreted by a hot-headed Nazi on the platform ... an argu- ment . . . the Nazi shoots the Jew . . . the war-dogs are slipped...
...tuba experiments. Tubaman James Austin Houston who plays in radio station WLW has a bellows contraption called an aerophor attached to his instrument (TIME, Dec. 14, 1931). He pumps it with his foot to shoot auxiliary air up through a hose into his mouth where, by a special facial technique, he shoots it back into the instrument. Tubaman Houston is puny. His aerophor is purely a lung-saving device. William Bell's invention is not for weak tubamen. It does the work of two tubas-a double bass and a baritone. It has two mouthpieces, two sets of tubing...
...president-emeritus of Princeton University; of internal hemorrhages when he drove his Packard sedan (given him by Princeton's trustees upon his retirement last June) into a Chevrolet beer truck near Woodbridge, N. J. His wife, 70, riding in the back seat, sustained a fractured skull and facial cuts from her smashed eyeglasses. Police thought Dr. Hibben must have suffered a stroke or fainted at the wheel before the crash. Born in Peoria. Ill., son of a minister, he was graduated with honors by Princeton in 1882, Princeton Theological Seminary in 1886 (after a year at Berlin University...