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...bout of Satanism they swing into action, shrieking, shooting, skulking, fainting, sprinting, cursing and puffing. Lugosi's daughter (Lucille Lund) inexplicably appears on the embalming table in the cellar. Lugosi and Karloff grapple over the table, are separated by a servant. Lugosi commences skinning Karloff alive with a scalpel. The U. S. visitors escape the house. Dynamite blows the whole situation to bits...
...advantages of this system are obvious and manifold. It would allow the upperclassman to concentrate solely within his field. It would remove the annoying thought that after all these years the upperclassman must again putter around with testtubes and retorts, with scalpel and tweezers. It would aid materially in transforming the punctilious prep school student to the tutorial student of the college. It would relieve Seniors of the bother some thought that on some sultry day in June on some beautiful blue summer's day, he must sit down and cudgel his brain for the name of that last minute...
...wants is "a style that is not only unseen but utterly unperceived. A complete negation of style...Give the reader a fact, not a phrase." This ideal, which implies a drastic cleavage between style and content, is shared by most of his contemporaries. They are all experts with a scalpel, and most of them are eager that their art should be popular; the combination of function and desire calls for an adroit but unobtrusive style...
...Cutler & Zollinger used the caustic solution on several other cervical fistulae. They also found the caustic useful in the cure of pilonidal sinus (cavity under the skin wherein grows hair). They open the sinus with a scalpel, then douse the hole with the solution. Thereafter it is easy to ream out the destroyed tissue. The patient need not be bedridden...
...APES OF GOD-Wyndham Lewis- McBride ($3). Though rumored to be aimed at the Sitwells (Edith. Osbert, Sacheverellj, Wyndham Lewis' Gargantuan satire carries poisoned arrows enough to riddle all the bohemians and neo-bohemians on earth. With a scalpel of wit in one hand, a cleaver of words in the other, the author lays open their pimplish coteries, shows them apish creatures loosely sexed. Wherever Art is, there are these Apes gathered. The fact that Satirist Lewis' account of their doings slipped the censor can only be explained by his book's disarming brilliance and enormous length...