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This happy line, from Sergeant Eddie Hartman's 1918 Variety notice of the Elsie Janis A.E.F. camp show, epitomizes the tone of troop entertainment in World War I. What it lacked in polish it more than made up in razzmatazz. Forthright, gangling, cartwheeling Elsie Janis was the greatest favorite of them all. Her persistent yawp "Are we downhearted?" was rarely if ever answered incorrectly. Greatest band-greater even than Sousa's -was Jim Europe's Negro aggregation which, at a bands-of-all-nations celebration in Paris, stopped the show with St. Louis Blues...
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Died. Lee Foster Hartman, 61, editor of Harpers Magazine for the past ten years; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
This time Bob Hope wrestles with the role of a young stockbroker who wagers $10,000 that he can tell the truth for 24 hours. He finds it tough going. Although Scripters Don Hartman and Ken Englund (and other nameless gagmen) have tried hard to refurbish the old farce by throwing out the 1916 gags and substituting their own, the change is scarcely noticeable...
...Henry Ford Hospital Dr. Frank Wilbur Hartman and colleagues dissolved pectin in warm double-distilled water, filtered it through fine papers till it had the same thickness as blood serum. After injecting this liquid pectin into a number of guinea pigs, rabbits and dogs with no ill effects, they transfused it into the veins of eight patients. Results: "the bleeding time, coagulation time . . . were not altered. . . . Satisfactory blood pressure levels were maintained throughout. . . . Pectin is retained in the body a short time and then eliminated...