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...Sylvia Ashley) flew to New York together, along with Norma Shearer, whom Ronald Balcom has been escorting when he wasn't with Lady Ashley. ∙∙ Greta Garbo, who started the long-lived longhair fad, had her locks cut to within three inches of their life, dyed them greenish-gold (with an aquamarine rinse), and tucked them into a monkish halo. ∙∙ Hedy Lamarr also had her long mane shortened, but only for private showing. ∙∙ Baby-faced Simone Simon joined the rush for U.S. citizenship, applied for her first papers...
Lampy's most invulnerable Ibis, the greenish one on a pole atop the Lampoon Building on Mt. Auburn Street, has disappeared, it was learned on unimpeachable authority early this morning...
...Jesse Jones js huge-6 ft. 3 in. high, with great pale hands, small, blue-greenish eyes that are all green when he is ready to say "No," and a thick thatch of white hair still sprinkled with iron-color. His face can be kind, as he can be; but most times it is the kind of face a man gets who asks himself one practical question through all the hours of his life -a rigid, stern, rocklike face. Sometimes he looks like the Ten Commandments...
...build a battleship ($46,000,000), employed 13,000 people at its peak, gave 63,600 performances of 1,200 major productions to audiences of 30,300,000, of whom some 65% had never before seen a living actor at work. This whopping project was run by tiny, greenish-eyed Hallie Flanagan, head of Vassar College's Experimental Theatre. Last week Hallie Flanagan published an ardent, lively history of Federal Theatre, Arena (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3), winding up with a blast at the politicos who finally packed the whole huge show off to the storehouse...
Author Harvey scouts the prevalent notion that a firefly's light is "100% efficient." It is true that all a firefly's output goes into visible light-that is, none is wasted in invisible infrared or ultraviolet radiation-but a consequence is that the light is greenish and would be unpleasant for human use even if it could be duplicated. Moreover, the proportion of visible to total radiation is not the only criterion of efficiency. Another is the ratio of light produced to energy expended. Scientists have not succeeded in measuring this ratio in the firefly because...