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Conklin is primarily an embryologist, whose chief scientific work was done with such material as the eggs of the sea squirt and of a little mollusc named Crepidula. But he got his start in science before extreme specialization was as fashionable as it is today. So he is something of a jack-of-all-biology. Perhaps for the same reason he has the kind of extra-level head which men who are not specialists sometimes have. No dodo, despite his amiable nature, he has a merry tongue which articulates scientific problems with what the contemporaries of his younger days called...
...best sites for your satiation. The Union Street restaurant is an extremely old and picturesque building (with a much worn oyster bar, sawdust, and beams on the first floor, and a remodeled second floor, quiet, dimly lighted, and suitable for the entertainment of ladies. Every conceivable sort of fish, mollusc, and crustacean is on the bill, and all are handled well, though simply. The chowder, of all sorts is good; the swordfish, at times, causes an instantaneous migration of the taste-buds into a taste-bud Paradise; and one's stomach, with the appended palate, will almost literally reach...
After the initial effort, which the oyster must perform unaided, General Foods Corp. can do much to aid the progress of the baby mollusc from the sea to the dinner tables of U. S. oyster-lovers. Old shells and brush, to which oysters happily cling, can be strewn upon the breeding-beds. Twice must the oysters be trans planted: first to a growing bed in deeper water, where they will not be buried under new spawn, then to a finishing school in waters rich with food. Such a fashionable spot is Cotuit, Long Island. Here, for the last six months...
...Mollusc" is a light comedy, with a weak, sentimental ending, but has the virtue of illustrating the all too prevalent type of character who struggles to stand still. In order to bring out this point, both the plot and the acting are a good deal over done. George Arliss himself seems just a bit unnatural, and his conversations with Philip Merrivalle, the weather beaten and long suffering husband of the "Mollusc", holds the attention but seems to lack essential characteristics of reality...
Viva Birkett as the "Mollusc", however, is superb. She has remarkable poise, and convinces us from the start that something out of the ordinary will have to be done if she is to be aroused. The device which does eventually arouse her is not strong enough to eliminate credulity...