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...produced by infecting animals with disease are anathema. Most prolific distributor of antivivisectionist literature is the Vivisection Investigation League, headed by 81-year-old Sue M. Farrell, who learned her humanitarianism direct from agnostic Robert Ingersoll; anti-vivisectionists also include such unusual celebrities as Fannie Hurst, George Arliss, Ellen Glasgow, Mahatma Gandhi. Irene Castle McLaughlin, but their societies were not officially represented in Milwaukee...
...Object Sublime." British business, with over $1,000,000,000 invested in Chinese property, and British sentimentalists for once united in their backing of the underdog in a modern war last week. Lightest touch was delivered by Cartoonist Orr in the Glasgow Daily Record. Referring to numerous statements in the Japanese press that the time had come for China to be "punished," he drew a scene from Gilbert & Sullivan's Mikado showing a wretched Chinese coolie, head on block before the Lord High Executioner, while beside him the spectacled Mikado, finger a-wag sings...
...symphonic, sentimental mass entertainment, which should satisfy most cinemaddicts, surprise almost none. Good shot: a carnival strong man tossing Red Scanlon into a creek. The Toast of New York (RKO) exhibits Edward Arnold, previously seen as Diamond Jim Brady, General John Sutter and an Oregon lumber tycoon named Bernard Glasgow, as swashbuckling Jim Fisk, whose financial freebooting nearly disrupted Wall Street in the decade after the Civil War. Abetted by his young cronies, Nick Boyd (Gary Grant) and Luke (Jack Oakie), Fisk amiably horn-swoggles pious little Dan Drew (Donald Meek) out of control of the Erie Railroad, then makes...
...Lang? The seventh son of a seventh son, dour, hawk-nosed Cosmo Gordon Lang, 72, was not raised in the church that he governs. His father was a Presbyterian preacher, the Very Rev. John Marshall Lang, Principal of Aberdeen University.* At University of Glasgow precocious Cosmo Gordon Lang won his M.A. degree at the age of 18 and a year later a valuable scholarship at swank Balliol College, Oxford. Always a politician, always ambitious, Student Lang was elected president of the Oxford Union over such potent undergraduates as Lord Curzon, Sir Edward Grey, Novelist Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins (The Prisoner...
...week rugged Edward Eugene Loomis, president of the road for 20 years, retired to become board chairman. Elected to succeed him was Scottish-born Duncan John Kerr, a rail-road man since 1904, when he arrived in the U. S. with a degree in engineering from the University of Glasgow. With Great Northern Ry. from 1910 to 1936, Mr. Kerr was assistant to the vice president in charge of operations and president of coal and lumber subsidiaries in Montana when Mr. Loomis hired him as his assistant last year. Reserved, 53-year old President Kerr lives in Manhattan, enjoys most...