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...Paris M. Raoul Michel-May suggested to the French Academy of Sciences a new method of exterminating mosquitoes in open ponds. At present a favorite method is to spread a thin film of oil on the water. When the mosquito larvae, which breathe through tubes in their tails, thrust their tails out of water to get air, oil clogs the tubes and the larvae suffocate. M. May recommended sprinkling the water with talcum powder impregnated with a compound of chlorine and ethane which would choke the larvae to death but would not harm human beings...
...revolt against the conventional prettiness of the oldtime classical ballet. Isadora Duncan fought for freedom, seemed revolutionary when she appeared in soft Grecian costumes rather than stiffly-starched tarlatan, interpreted music according to her own personal reaction. The great Isadora had an influence on the Russian Choreographer Michel Fokine who did most to emancipate the ballet from its rigid routine, its stiff, old-fashioned patterns. But the classical technique persists, still holds claim to first importance wherever ballet is given...
...younger days, Hofma-m spent some time composing, credited his pieces to one Michel Dvorsky, whom he liked to describe as a poor, sickly Pole living in Spain. Hofmann still plays "Dvorsky" music, much of it reminiscent of the Chopin he reveres. But the hoax was exploded years ago when someone took the trouble to translate Hofmann into Polish, found that it meant Dvorsky...
...Buenos Aires, Argentina, Epidemiology; Albert E. Rauh, of Cincinnati, Ohio, Anatomy; Paul B. Cassaday, of Alliance, Ohio, Medicine; Friedrich W. Klemperer, of Freiburg, Germany, Biological Chemistry; Georges J. P. Hornus, of Paris, France, Bacteriology; James G. M. Hamilton, Edinburgh, Scotland, Medicine; Francis J. C. Herrald, of Edinburgh, Scotland, Medicine; Michel Pijoan, of Boston, Medicine; David Weinman, of New York City, Comparative Pathology; Felix Douisch, of Boston, Psychiatry; Erick Homburger, of Karlsruhe, Baden, Germany, Psychology; and Georges E. P. Coppee, of Liege, Belgium, Physiology...
Sacha Guitry's closest friends were the great Impressionist painter Monet and the independent man of letters. Octave Mirbeau. Among managers, Guitry's favorite was Michel Mortier, who produced his successful Le Kwtz. During the run of that play, Mortier learned that Edward VII, incognito in Paris, planned to visit his small theatre. Mortier hung out the Union Jack in preparation. Before the curtain rose, stately white-bearded King Leopold of Belgium unexpectedly appeared, seemed puzzled when the orchestra broke into God Save the King and Mortier, out of his head, jabbered...