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...more good news for diabetics. From the duodenal membranes of rabbits, dogs, hogs and cattle they had isolated a new hormone. Fed in powder form or injected into patients with diabetes, it reduced blood sugar to normal. Quietly Dean Archibald Bruce Macallum and Associate Professor of Physiology Norman B. Laughton of the University of Western Ontario Medical School made a preliminary report of their discovery to the Royal Society of England. As a diabetes medicine it may prove as effective as the insulin Toronto University's Drs. Banting & Best discovered...
...hormone of Drs. Macallum & Laughton has two advantages that insulin lacks. Not only may it be taken by mouth (insulin must be injected) but it cannot reduce the blood sugar below the normal (.08-.12%). Experiments both on animals and on human subjects confirmed this. But Drs. Macallum & Laughton, treading warily, think experiments on human patients in a few U. S. and Canadian hospitals should continue for four or five years before their new hormone may be introduced for general...
...which are commendable, is by way of being news on Broadway. The Fatal Alibi, from Agatha Christie's Murder of Roger Ackroyd, which ends with the narrator's last-chapter confession, is not as funny as Monkey, but more logical. Engaged to solve this crime is Actor Charles Laughton, who made this season's grim Payment Deferred almost too real. This time Mr. Laughton is cast as the famed French operative Hercule Poirot. His accent is good, his mumming of characteristic meticulousness. Either Author Christie or Reviser John Anderson, capable theatre critic of the New York Journal, has supplied...
...Actor Laughton is a roly pudding of a man. He also has a very rare genius for acting. Actor Laughton not only speaks his lines, he thinks them. They can be seen in his puffy eyes before they come from his lips...
Born 32 years ago, son of a provincial hotelkeeper at Scarborough, England, Actor Laughton started miming soon after leaving Stonyhurst College. The last five years have seen his rise to prominence on the British stage in Alibi, Beauty and. incongruously, as the Italo-Chicagoan gang leader in Edgar Wallace's On The Spot. He created the role of Mr. Marble...