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Many a guarded aspiration toward scientific fame subsided last week upon the awarding of the 1929 Nobel Prize in Medicine. Joint winners were Professor Frederick Gowland Hopkins of Cambridge University and Professor Christian Eijkman of the University of Utrecht. Both men pioneered in proving the existence, usefulness, necessity of vitamins in nutrition...
...director, he still believes in dirty work. Greed is taken for Frank Norris's gold-digging story, McTeague, and reeks with realism; Von Stroheim relies on reeking pictures. He makes an actor pick his nose. Von Stroheim relies on reeking pictures. The No. 1 actor is a brute (Gibson Gowland) married to a grasping wife. The final episode of death in the desert carries a brutal film to a brilliantly brutal climax...