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...maintain sumptuous residences in New Delhi which they inhabit only when the Chamber meets. Nearly all ride Rolls-Royces (the Maharaja of Patiala has 36 Rolls-Royces). Last week from the flagstaffs of these pampered potentates fluttered the crimson & gold of Bikaner, the blue, white & yellow of Bahawalpur, the scarlet of Patiala...
Altitude. A scarlet-and-cream Lockheed-Vega, with handsome Socialite Ruth Nichols at the controls, roared into the sky over Manhattan, settled into a steady climb of nearly an hour's duration. A thermometer on the wing stopped registering at 45° below zero. A high west wind blew the ship backwards, nearly five miles out to sea. Miss Nichols, breathing oxygen that nearly froze her tongue, forced the ship higher and higher until fuel was exhausted, descended with an apparent altitude record for women (subject to confirmation) of more than 30,000 ft. Existing record...
...Chicago performance of Scarlet Sister Mary a member of the mob scene was John Drew ("Jacky") Colt, 17, son of the play's leading actress, Ethel Barrymore, nephew of Actors John and Lionel Barrymore, grandnephew of famed John Drew. Stagestruck, he had quit school. Following a three-generation tradition in the Barrymore family regarding debuts, he carried onto the stage a red apple sent by his Uncle John...
Owing to the presence of scarlet fever in Cambridge, and to the appearance of a few cases in the University, it seems wise to offer protection to those who wish it. By a simple test (the "Dick" test) it is possible to determine accurately within 24 hours whether a person is susceptible to scarlet fever. By a series of five inoculations at weekly intervals immunity is securable, which becomes operative about two weeks after the beginning of the treatment, and which lasts for several years. A subsequent "Dick" test will show the success of the inoculations. The test will...
...Manhattan Actress Ethel Barrymore, as had been widely predicted, closed her new play Scarlet Sister Mary in which she appeared as a Negress (TIME, Dec. 1). But she declared she would again try the production on the road. She explained: ". . . It's mob psychology. The people got together and said they'd not see me black. ... It seems to me New York audiences don't want something good now. . . . Anyway, I'm in damn good company! They wouldn't have Sheridan, or Goldsmith, and it's taken people a pretty long time to swallow Stravinsky. It was a good while...