Word: parte
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first indication that anything out of the ordinary was going on was when the proctor at the Psychochemistry X exam noticed that there was one more man in the room than was enrolled in the course. Suspicious of some plot on the part of one of his rivals in the phlegtobotany department, he watched for an unfamiliar face as the students came up to leave their books. Just as the throng about the desk was greatest, he caught a glimpse of the strange face. It was only a glimpse, and before he could say a word it was lost...
...Part II The Mystery Grows...
...Part III Disappearance...
...unanswered. Was the whole scheme the plot of a lunatic inventor, or was it merely the result of a process of natural selection? No one can ever know, for Mucilage, realizing the danger to humanity and education that would exist if the mechanism were left in existence, burned it part by part in his furnace the same night. As it dissolved into ashes and smoke, there perished with it the first and only Ghost of Memorial Hall...
...company has no weak points and all the characters help in maintaining the frothy spirit of the play. Mary Nash, in the part of Manuela, coos and poses most alluringly in her tryst with Gaston in what she calls the "seductive surroundings" of his office, and furnishes one of the high spots of the show when she appears in some pyjamas attributed to Pizarro. Melvyn Douglas, playing opposite her, does a thoroughly capable job, and Violet Kemble Cooper, in the role of his scorned nemesis, makes the most of a less productive part. Ferdinand Gottschalk and Henry Stephenson give...