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Members of the Optometrical Society of the City of New York peered inquisitively last week at Grace Robin, 22, near-sighted Brooklyn stenographer. Pleasantly but glassily Grace Robin peered back. She did not appear to be wearing eyeglasses. yet she was, right against her eyeballs- contact glasses, such as had never been seen by the New York Society...
...sufficiently skilled to write such prescriptions. But none, so far as could be learned last week, owns a complete set of 39 test lenses (cost $25 a lens); and most consider contact glasses foolish, unnecessary. Dr. Heine's customers have been people with athletic or cosmetic reasons. Miss Robin's reason for wearing the lenses last week was to accommodate the New York optometrists. She was in constant fear that the glasses might break on her eyes...
Good Intentions (Fox). This preposterous fable about gunmen in silk hats is good entertainment, although the characters, including Edmund Lowe as the gunmau chief, are stencils. The story is the one about the society Robin Hood who falls in love with a nice girl and keeps appointments with her between bank robberies. Few will accept as verity the huge town mansion of the young and naif hoodlum, or his devoted butler, or the robbery of the bank whose president is kidnaped at church by gunmen dressed like ushers, or Lowe's stubborn march upstairs to death in a dark room...
Philadelphia. "An evening with one of the world's most noted symphony orchestras for 22 cents," was the sales-cry of backers of the Philadelphia Orchestra's first season of summer concerts nightly in shady Robin Hood Dell, Fairmount Park. For 24 concerts tickets sold at $5. Besides Conductor Leopold Stokowski and Assistant Conductor Alexander Smallens, guest maestros will include Karl Krueger (also at the Hollywood Bowl) and Josef Alexander Pasternack. Albert Coates and Willem van Hoogstraten will alternate as conductors between Philadelphia and Manhattan (see below). From Berlin will come Ernst Knoch, famed conductor of Wagnerian music...
...triumphant acknowledgment of the cheers they knew were coming from the crowd below. Thus, last week, did the Family Hunter of Sparta, Ill., break the endurance record of 420 hr. 21 min. set last year by Dale ("Red") Jackson and Forrest O'Brine in the St. Louis Robin (TIME...