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...Lowry's alloy has a tensile strength of 60,000 lbs. per sq. in. at 600° C. (1112° F.). At the same temperature chrome nickel steel's tensile strength is 30,000 lbs. per sq. in. Name given the new material is konel metal - from ko(balt) plus n(ick)el. Uses are for the filaments of radio vacuum tubes, turbine blades, motor pistons, valves & valve stems...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Joseph Sakunoshin Motoda, missionary, onetime president of St. Paul's University, Tokyo, and first Japanese Bishop of the Diocese of the Nippon Sei Ko Kwai (Holy Catholic Church of Japan), of heart disease; in Tokyo. Consecrated Bishop in Dec. 1923, his first act was to set about the restoration of his diocese, laid waste by earthquake three months before...
...week in the most tuneful of the Savoyard operettas, The Mikado. This opera is the one in which NankiPoo (William Williams), son of the Mikado of Japan (John Barclay), disguises himself as a wandering minstrel to woo Yum-Yum (Lois Bennett), ward and fiancee of the Lord High Executioner Ko-Ko (Fred Wright). By crossing the palm of the stately grafter, Pooh-Bah (William Gordon), whose ancestry is so proud that he was "born sneering," they avoid one tangle of legal red tape only to discover themselves enmeshed in another. Not till the exalted Mikado himself descends upon the scene...
...Bill in "The Better 'Ole", Ko-Ko in the "Mikado", and his present role as Lutz in the "Student Prince", Mr. Hopper declared were probably the most interesting characters of the many that he has portrayed...
...made his debut on the stage almost 50 years ago, appearing in "Our Boys." He has had companies of his own, and has also appeared with such old-timers as Weber and Fields. He is perhaps best known for his acting as Edward in "The Pirates of Penzance." Ko-Ko, in the "Mikado" is another role that he has pearance has been made in "The Better "Ole" in 1918, and with Francis Wilson in "Ermine...