Word: lights
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wafted along by George Gershwin's symphonies, the story is that of a highborn scioness, financially but never socially embarrassed, who wins a treasure hunt and marries a paste-board realtor. So light a continuity suits the demands of airy tunes and jokes, but the moments in which hijackers threaten the treasure hunters, and those in which Leading Lady Lawrence is compelled to grow tempestuous about her silly suitor, do not. With any other actress, the show would be a flop; but Gertrude Lawrence makes it more than acceptable entertainment...
...shape, size and attachments (so far undescribed) all concentrate the short waves from the transmitting bulb in a straight, narrow beam, much like the beam from a search light...
...favorite tint because it shows to excellent advantage against the Oriental skin. Similarly, Westerners prefer pink pearls; not a deep pink, which is almost invariably muddy, but a pale rosée. Color can best be examined by placing the pearl on white cotton under a strong natural light...
...Crimson in its last home game of the current season. Simultaneously a crippled Yale team will tackle the roaring Princeton Tiger in its Jungletown den, and these two contests will occupy a large part of the attention of the football world; for they will shed the final ray of light on next week's classic in the Yale Bowl...
Whether its adoption will draw to the field numbers of men who do not play even class football because of a lack of brawn is problematical. Many light men turn to track, crew, and other sports where they are at no disadvantage or special provision is made for them. Football has long been regarded as an oligarchy of the big boys; it may be doubtful whether enough candidates will report to fill out enough teams for a comprehensive schedule, but in their particular effort to attract more men to the game the proponents of the new plan...