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Germ-free guinea pigs, Dr. Reyniers noticed, ''are more active and develop heartier appetites than their contaminated brothers and sisters." Whether the tuberculosis, scarlet fever and other diseases which they are going to be infected with differ from such diseases in normally raised guinea pigs now is something for bacteriologists to investigate...
...Scarlet Pimpernel" is a film which has already received too much praise to be spoiled by trite phrases here. The Playgoer recommends it strongly, even to those romantic souls who must have their Hollywood endings. Need we say, yes, we might as well, Merle Oberon is a young lady who makes Hollywood endings a real pleasure, indeed, a delight...
...world had already heard of Dr. Gladys Rowena Henry Dick who, with her Doctor-Husband George Frederick, had in 1923 isolated the scarlet fever germ and discovered a serum for the disease. The Dicks were thinking of adopting two Cradle children, which they later did, a boy and a girl. To The Cradle came Dr. Gladys to make bacterial examination of the food. Her chief discovery: that the powdered milk, the babies' chief basis for nourishment, unboilable and hence unsterilized, was carrying the germs that caused the epidemic of dysentery. It was through her report-subsequently made public...
...these salient characteristics might suggest that, for the purpose of manufacturing profitable moving pictures, Director von Sternberg and Cinemactress Dietrich constituted less than an ideal partnership. To the executives of Paramount, on the other hand, they justified a series of five pictures (Morocco, Dishonored, Shanghai Express, Blonde Venus, The Scarlet Empress), few of which made any money. The sixth, The Devil Is a Woman, is notable chiefly because, since Director von Sternberg's contract has not been renewed, it terminates this unfortunate alliance by illustrating its disadvantages even more strikingly than its predecessors...
...mother and probably, through her milk, for the child. Dr. Charles Fremont McKhann Jr. of Boston gave such placentophagy a new twist and a sound scientific basis by extracting substances from placentas, with which he inoculates children against measles. He also expects to extract sub stance to immunize against scarlet fever, diphtheria, infantile paralysis...