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...agouized girl shown here is completely unconscious in a petit-mal epileptic fit, as the violent nature of the brain waves recorded in the moving picture indicates...
...most important scientific triumphs of recent times, Dr. Robert S. Schwab "26, assistant in Neurology at the Medical School, has devised a new machine to discover just what goes on during a petit-mal epileptic fit both inside and outside a patient's head...
Facial expressions and hand motions during a petit-mal fit are of interest because they give valuable information on the region of the brain which is causing the trouble...
...petit-mal fit is not at all violent, but the patient becomes entirely unconscious for about a minute. This is of course very dangerous at times...
...counts Family Portrait falls down. It shows Jesus' family resenting and rejecting Him, over and over to the point of dullness. Worse, with its unbiblical, small-town atmosphere, it reduces Him to the stature of any misunderstood "artist in the family," and the play to a satire on petit-bourgeois respectability. This diminution of scale undoubtedly gives the play piquancy; but it proves fatal so far as evoking the unique spirit of Jesus is concerned. Though not at all irreverent, Family Portrait has none of the feeling that went into painting The Last Supper; rather the cleverness that goes...