Word: piped
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...credit of these Russian players that every act is as fresh now as it was on their arrival in New York; even the "Parade of the Wooden Soldiers", which has been played to death by dance orchestras everywhere, seems new and different when accompanying the clockwork manoeuvers of the pipe-clayed actors. Balieff, of course, is inimitable; no one could rob his "apparition on the stage", as he says, of one whit of its originality or its unique humor. One is reconciled to the end of each scene only by the knowledge that this master comedian will reappear...
...delinquency. The locale is in the South Seas; the star, Jeanne Eagels. CHILDREN OF THE MOON-An eerie drama of the singular type ot insanity, moon madness. Also a philippic against the over-possessive mother. Brilliant performances by Henrietta Crosman, Beatrice Terry, Florence Johns. SUN UP-Wherein a pipe-smoking virago of the Carolina mountains perceives that patriotism and motherhood overshadow feud hatred. SEVENTH HEAVEN - From the sewer life of Paris to a garret honeymoon. Helen Menken, the War, and a long black whip provide most of the agitation...
...UP?A primitive tragedy of the Carolina Mountains where reading and writing are viewed with native alarm. Particularly worth while is the performance of Lucile La Verme, who smokes a corn cob pipe as though she likes...
...scientific study made in the psychological laboratory of the Uni-versity of Wisconsin. Most such investigations are vitiated by faulty methods or factors of interest, suggestion, deprivation, prejudices, etc. Dr. O'Shea and, his colleague, Dr. Clark L. Hull, determined to eliminate these subjective elements, and devised a "control" pipe, containing an electric heating coil. The subjects were given this while blindfolded and were surprised to learn later that they had not been smoking tobacco, but merely drawing in heated air. Seven non-smokers and nine smokers (university students) were tested for three hours on 18 consecutive days, on some...
Parisian pique at pipe-smoking pedestrians...