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...Affection, most often tuberculosis, of the suprarenal glands, is the cause of Addison's disease. The glands are two small bodies, shaped like cocked hats and one perched at the top of each kidney. Each gland is made up of a cortex or rind and a medulla or pith. The two are inseparably united, more so than the core and pulp of an apple. Medulla and cortex have different embryonic origins. The medulla originally buds off from the same cells which provide the sympathetic nervous system. The cortex begins in the same cells whence the urogenital system derives. During...
Sinner's Holiday (Warner). In a season in which many features, for no good reason, are being allowed to run over an hour and a half, Sinner's Holiday has been compressed to 55 minutes. Concentration gives it pith; it tells its little story compactly and credibly. Although the action involves liquor-running and murder, it is less a picture of action than of character, made so by the skill of Lucille La Verne and James Cagney. She is the owner of a penny arcade, which she runs with an avarice only equaled by her devotion to bourgeois...
...there's Smith. Turn to your left at Ware, proceed with decorum (the latter is a necessity) and swing proudly into the home of Cal Coolidge, Columnist. Once there, practice saying "Oh, really", and you have the pith of any conversation likely to intrude on the campusian walks of America's Greatest Women's College. So saying, the Vagabond will leave the shades of Sophia Smith with a parting admonition to the effect that the entertainment consists mostly of absorbing the cleverest, catchiest, and downright distinctive set of rules governing any herd of femmes congregated anywhere. To make the game...
Insult. The spectacle of British actors speaking British-translated lines from a Dutch drama on an American stage is likely to become confusing. So marked are the types in Jan Fabricius' play that one feels the mummers have mislaid the Sam Browne belts, pith helmets and khaki drill uniforms of England's tropical troops, adorning themselves by some unfortunate mistake in the wardrobe department with the pot caps and gaiters of the Dutch East Indies colonial army. This is rather a weighty matter since the costuming in such an absurd play as Insult is a necessary adjunct to the silly...
...pith of his address was an enthusiastic plea for accord with the Far East. Speaking of East Indians, Chinese and Japanese, he declared: "They like to feel their arts and culture generally are appreciated by the western world, and are disposed to look upon us as inclined more to the material and rather neglectful of their arts. The more we can show our appreciation of these things, the better the understanding will be. ... It is also essential that they understand that we care more for their arts and culture than they give us credit...