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...Inventor Simjian conceived the apparatus while he was director of the Medical School's photographic laboratories. Leaving Yale, the well-to-do young Armenian built a model of the x-ray observation ap paratus and as soon as he saw that it worked, disassembled it. Last week he regretted his act. when Surgeon William Rose of Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center asked permission to use the Simjian device first. Mr. Simjian, about to sail for England, promised to build another in autumn...
...Tests indicate that the diagnostician can be more certain than ever before of recognizing a cancer or benign tumor in its early stage," said Inventor Simjian. "Another very important point is that for the first time it becomes possible to illuminate blood vessels." Among other photographic devices invented by Mr. Simjian are a fogged silver screen for projecting microscopic photographs, a self-focusing camera, an automatic developing tank, a system of mirrors and a camera with which a subject can photograph any desired aspect of his face, and a set of mirrors for dress and hat shops inside which...
...most disputable bit of deductive reasoning which Nick Charles executes in the course of The Thin Man. A retired detective, in Manhattan for a holiday with his charming wife (Myrna Loy), he finds himself drawn by circumstance into trying to solve the sudden disappearance of an eccentric inventor, whose mistress has been found murdered. When the inventor's watch-chain is discovered in the dead woman's hand, when the only possible witness to the crime is found murdered also, a dull-witted police operator (Pat Pendleton) surmises that the inventor committed both crimes. While gayly consuming enormous...
...Independence, The Surrender of Burgoyne, The Surrender of Cornwallis, The Resignation of General Washington) in the rotunda of the U. S. Capitol for which the Government paid him the generous sum of $32,000. Most striking in the gallery of early Americans was a dynamic Head of Lafayette by Inventor-Painter Samuel Finley Breese Morse...
Starring the inimitable W. C. Fields the leading picture this week is "You're Telling Me." With only the suggestion of a plot the film supplies a background for the antics of Fields, pantomine actor extraordinary and wisecracking humorist. As Sam Bisbee, local inventor, he supplies the quiet little town of Crystal Springs with gossip galore and is a match for the town's society leader whose son falls in love with the "unmentionable" Bisbee's daughter. Jean Marsh plays the daughter and is charming in the role. Larry Crabbe as the son of the society dame is adequate...