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Back in Boston for a limited engagement, F. Hugh Herbert's Broadway hit, "The Moon Is Blue," is in capable hands. It has a skillful cast headed by Marcia Henderson, James Young, and Hiram Sherman which rivals in every way the performances of the original production...
...plot of this disarmingly innocent sex comedy is simple enough. It concerns a virtuous young girl who is picked up by an architect atop the Empire State Building. They subsequently go to his apartment, where they are joined by an amiable but immoral neighbor (played by Hiram Sherman with a fraudulent Southern accent) living in an upstairs suite. From there on the presence of the naive and pure young lady in such worldly surroundings is situation enough for Mr. Herbert to spin a clever and funny play which never sags because of its witty conversation...
...Hiram Cole Houghton of Red Oak, Iowa, president of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, stepped up last week to say something about the girls. She told a meeting in Philadelphia: "We bear a greater responsibility than ever before for the preservation of our American way of life, because, first, there are so many of us; second, we live longer than men; third, we have 92 labor-saving devices to give us more leisure time to think about the affairs, events and problems of our times. We spend about 85? out of every dollar going for consumer goods...
Watson's statement came in connection with a denial by Hiram Bingham, chief of the government's Loyalty Review Board, that membership in a "suspectedly subversive" club would bar students from federal jobs. Bingham said that no one had ever been fired or barred from a government job merely because of his connection with a political group while he was an undergraduate...
...molecules. Several such substances, including gelatin, Dextran (a complex sugarlike compound) and PVP (polyvinyl pyrrolidone), a synthetic made from acetylene, do the job to some extent, but none is both plentiful and entirely satisfactory. Okra for Shock. One new idea is an extract of the slippery vegetable, okra. Dr. Hiram B. Benjamin of Marquette Medical School, Milwaukee, discovered more or less by accident that an okra extract he was testing as a cure for stomach ulcers could be injected without immediate damage into the veins of dogs. Apparently the okra extract contains polysaccharide molecules similar to Dextran. Other blood experts...