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...lung temperature and humidity, the tube passes through a small tank of water heated by an electric light bulb. Mr. Houston admits that the aerophor presents its difficulties. It takes a big mouth to hold the forked tube on either side of the big tuba mouthpiece, a special facial-muscle technique to switch from lung to bellows air without interrupting the tone or affecting its quality. But hitherto players on the big horn have had to have the heart and lungs of athletes. Oboists and bassoonists need outside help even more because of their tiny, double-reed mouthpieces. The legend...
...Wicked) shows the potentialities of Elissa Landi as an emotional actress. A stage success of 17 years ago, the picture has two other noteworthy performances?by Laurence Olivier, a mild spoken English actor with unusually good camera presence, and Lionel Barrymore. Barrymore, the best leerer in his family, achieves facial contortions of unparalleled eloquence; he has added a scratchy guffaw to his paraphernalia of lechery. Good shot: the scene in a cabaret in which a song sung by the performers reminds Barrymore where he first saw Elissa Landi...
...TIME, a whisker is a whisker whether it grows out of chin, ear, nostril, facial mole or upper...
Sophistication, a quality of which the modern undergraduate is supposedly proud, has been defined largely by the things which are not done. Among those who so sternly put away childish things the term has come to represent a kind of blank facial water-mark, a certain disinterested preciosity, a docile decency toward reform, and a super-bred horror of the "collegiate." Yet in course of time, it must be pointed out that sophistication is not defined by the things which are not done, but rather by the things which are not done seriously...
...famed Scott's Emulsion (cod liver oil) has been made by Scott & Bowne Inc. of Bloomfield, N. J. Last week Scott's Emulsion was sold to Harold F. Ritchie of Toronto and F. M. Shoemaker of Elmira, N. Y. The Ritchie-Shoemaker combination already owns the Pompeian facial cream company (bought last year from Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Co.) and controls International Proprietaries, Ltd., maker of Eno's Fruit Salt, morning-after tonic...