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...evolution. Jean Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet Lamarck propagated a theory that acquired characteristics could be inherited. Most modern students of evolution take little stock in either Bergsonism or Lamarckism. Yet last week Dr. Ales Hrdlicka, famed anthropologist of the Smithsonian Institution, presented a view which seemed to flirt with both. Whereas primitive organisms are bundles of inherited reaction patterns and higher animals are resultants of heredity plus environment, Dr. Hrdlicka believes that man can promote or suppress the unfolding of his heredity by acts of volition. This may lead to actual physical or chemical changes in the germ-plasm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Philosophers in Philadelphia | 4/29/1935 | See Source »

...find sex arduous. As "something outstanding" to attract his siren's attention, Junior pushes over a traffic cop, goes to jail. Though this experiment is unsuccessful, a new dog and girl console him. Meanwhile his sister, faring better, develops a working compromise between being a pal and a flirt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 4, 1933 | 12/4/1933 | See Source »

...flaxen-haired Miss Smith is the waif who insinuates herself into people's homes, makes a livelihood from the food, drink, tips they give her. A Little Racketeer is concerned with one instance in which this cozzening does not come off quite as she plans. But she manages to flirt, sing, dance her way out of a passably exciting situation. There is plenty of good music...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 1, 1932 | 2/1/1932 | See Source »

...then Mr. Ingram falls in love with his ward Trixie, a chronic flirt. Thereafter neither can trust the other. Even on their honeymoon they are tagged after by cast-off friends. And as the final curtain falls, although Mr. & Mrs. Ingram have settled their entanglemen's of the moment, one foresees for them a merry married life and a short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Apr. 20, 1931 | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

...took child roles with Selig. From Pathe she graduated to wearing silver wigs in Cecil B. De Mille's period pictures. Lately, in her 40th to 49th pictures inclusive, she has been uniformily a slightly madcap but inherently sensible heroine whose activities whether in college (The Campus Flirt), a newspaper office (Hot News), a bathing suit (Swim, Girl, Swim, The Palm Beach Girl), or more esoteric backgrounds (A Kiss in a Taxi, Lovers in Quarantine, Senorita), embodied a gaiety only faintly flavored with sentiment. Bebe Daniels had a good time and seldom took a holiday. She was engaged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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