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...eerie ee-ya-ee call the chewing-gum flavor of her pronounced Brooklyn accent. This new Tarzan is lean, 6-ft. 2-in., Olympic Champion Glenn Morris, summoned to the role to replace Johnny Weissmuller. Actor Morris, who heroically combines the facial qualities of Broadway's Burgess Meredith and Hollywood's Harpo Marx, has the miming ability of neither. What he has is the 1936 Olympic decathlon title. His costume: no leopard skin, but a serviceable breechclout, a knife...
...words, like protein, it regained activity after the poison was removed. Finally Rockefeller Institute's John Howard Northrop isolated a phage, showed it to be a protein with the catalyzing properties of an enzyme. These researches convinced many a bacteriologist that phages are nonliving protein molecules, like Wendell Meredith Stanley's crystallized virus which causes tobacco mosaic disease in plants...
Five years ago Dr. Wendell Meredith Stanley, an organic chemist trained at the University of Illinois and in Germany, went to work in the new laboratories of the Rockefeller Institute at Princeton. His objective was to find out what viruses are. Last week at a biophysics meeting in Philadelphia (sponsored by the American Institute of Physics and the University of them as Pennsylvania) he "mysterious was still purveyors of referring disease'' to but he was able to tell much more about them than he or any man knew five years ago, to describe the results which...
There Goes the Groom (RKO Radio). Burgess Meredith plays comedy as if it were Hamlet. Ann Sothern is the bride...
...early 20th Century episodes (reminiscent of Ah, Wilderness, Eugene O'Neill's better realized, if less ambitious, comedy) highly entertaining. Director McClintic's staging of an automobile ride, choir rehearsal and picnic in the year 1902 makes the second act a riot of Americana. Burgess Meredith proves himself the most accomplished of young U. S. actors, neatly running the gamut of middle age and youth, inspired duffer and embittered worldling. As the inventor's crony, Russell Collins (The Group Theatre's "Johnny Johnson") gives a compelling exhibition of bluff, whimsical idealism. Lillian Gish portrays girlhood...