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...Minister Plenipotentiary Ghaffar Khan Djalal on the ground that his car was "speeding"-the natural right of a great Khan. As she should beat any dog of an Iranian policeman who dared to halt the Khan, his wife was understood to have taken a crack at Elkton Town Officer Jacob Biddle. Iranians boiled with indignation at reports that the native Biddle not only failed to recognize the diplomatic status and immunity of His Excellency but exclaimed in the Maryland vernacular, "Aw, this guy is nothing but a preacher!" Then, actually grappling with the Great Khan, Biddle snapped the degrading shackles...
...last Department of Commerce survey he led the world on six items. In business with Max Factor are Sons David (London office), Frank (chemical laboratory), Louis (plant superintendent), Sidney (Southern California chemistry student); Sons-in-law Bernard A. Shore (makeup adviser). Max Firestein (hair department). The much kidnapped Jacob ("Jake the Barber'') Factor is a brother. Lately Elizabeth Arden, who operates 22 high-priced beauty salons in the U. S., discovered that interest in socialite endorsements is waning, cast envious eyes at the Factor lineup. She went West, bought a cosmetic company, gave a great many parties...
...jade, rubber, porcelain, crystalline glass, papier-mache, wax and human thigh bones. Flutes have been played by nose as well as by mouth. They were played by Cleopatra's father, by Benvenuto Cellini, Henry VIII, Frederick the Great, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Oliver Goldsmith, George Washington, the first John Jacob Astor. Theobald Boehm, a Bavarian court musician, made the first metal flute in 1847. Professor Dayton Clarence Miller, flute-playing physicist at the Case School of Applied Science in Cleveland, was first to experiment with platinum, proving that the denser the metal, the better the instrument's tone...
...Francisco's Opera House one evening last week City Health Director Jacob Casson Geiger was summoned to a telephone, informed that one Albert Perry, 87, had just died of arsenic poisoning. That night Albert Perry's daughter Bessie, 53, also died. Next morning authorities found arsenic and sodium fluoride in the family's baking soda, traced the soda to a cut-rate department store run by one Joseph Rosenthal. Twenty-one other soda-users were discovered ill. Taking to the radio, Director Geiger warned San Franciscans to eat no more of the Rosenthal soda...
...could possibly be expected. In the difficult role of young Alving, her son, Harry Ellerbe, performs with deep sincerity and skill. One Munson is properly earthy and youthful in the part of Regina, the servant girl and McKay Morris as Pastor Manders and Raymond O'Brien as Jacob Engstrand both create vivid personalities...