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From here on, says Patrick, Holiday will travel first class, pay its authors well. Its first dreamboat assignment recently went to Funnyman S. J. Perelman (Keep It Crisp), now en route to Bali with Artist Albert Hirschfeld. Title of their series: Westward Ha! or, Around the World in Eighty Cliches...
Died. Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, 67, famed Jewish neurologist, founder of the Institute for Sexual Science in Berlin, Nazi exile since 1933; in Nice. Unkempt and walrus-mustached, he was called "the Einstein of Sex," had heard the confidences of 30,000 sexually maladjusted people. He believed that absolute sexual normality is rarer than abnormality, crusaded for candor, removal of restrictive sex laws and customs. Said he: "If a man wants to understand a woman, he must discover the woman in himself, and if a woman would understand a man, she must dig in her own consciousness to discover...
Cigarets. At cigaret-smoking dentists Dr. Isador Hirschfeld of Manhattan stared reprovingly. Cigaret smoking, he stated, has a deleterious effect on the tissues of the mouth, predisposing them to "trench mouth" (Vincent's Disease). He linked together the recent increase of this infectious disease with the increase of U. S. cigaret smoking (8,000,000,000 cigarets in 1910; 97,000,000,000 in 1927). Women cigaret smokers, according to him, are falling sick in more & more numbers. Kissing spreads the disease. But more usual than smoking or kissing as predisposing causes are fatigue, systemic disease, dental irregularities, insufficient...
...book is based on personal interviews and data furnished by Professor Steinach himself and several of his disciples, including Dr. Peter Schmidt, of Berlin; Dr. Harry Benjamin, of New York; Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld, of the Institute for Sexual Science, Berlin, and Dr. A. S. Blumgarten, chief of the endocrine department of the Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, who has written a sympathetic introduction. It will not settle the scientific status of "rejuvenation" methods, but will doubtless have a ready sale among romantic laymen and laywomen...
...Castle Square Theatre, and the selection will meet the hearty approval of the great public to which these performances appeal so successfully. In the revival the title role will be taken by Clara Lane and Carrie Roma, the latter a new member of the organization. Director Max Hirschfeld has given his usual care to the production of "Mignon" and a repetition of this opera's earlier success with the company can be confidently anticipated. "Mignon" is announced for only a single week, with "Trovatore" to follow...