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Poland, the land of Copernicus, Chopin, Mme Curie, Paderewski, is one place where estheticism and the laboratory spirit are not considered synonymous with general debility. And so it has been perfectly natural for Edward Smigly-Rydz to keep up his painting. One of the works of which the clean-shaven, egg-bald General is proudest is a self-portrait, with a beard and a shock of hair...
...hrer, on the other hand, ordered his aviators to try out a few of their latest tricks over Loyalist cities, but spared Germans the tedious life of the trenches. His fine-looking, neatly dressed, clean-shaven, well-behaved warriors were mostly staff officers, expert airplane technicians, artilIerymen and anti-aircraft gunners who stayed back of the lines and kept pretty much to themselves. There were probably never more than 10,000 of them in Spain at one time, but for two years they performed a service which neither Spaniards nor Italians were educated...
...English source," said the release, "reports that stonecutters erecting huge masonry structures in Great Britain were examined for silicosis. It was found: 1) that the clean shaven men suffered by far the most; 2) that men with strong mustaches fared much better; 3) that men with full bushy beards and mustaches were practically immune, the reason being obvious that the moisture of the breath, combined with the hair, formed a most efficient respirator [strainer] and one that the men could not take...
Although Czechoslovakia became a republic soon after the War-when it was created out of detached fragments of neighboring monarchies-its school system was not made over until a decade later. The agent of that change was a clean-shaven, energetic, gesticulating educator. Dr. Vaclav Príhoda, 45, who studied at Columbia's Teachers College and the University of Chicago, the two great springs of modern educational ideas in the U. S. He returned to Czechoslovakia with a burning zeal for the educational theories of Philosopher John Dewey...
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (Paramount) is capricious proof that impish, cheroot-chewing Ernst Lubitsch is as deft a director as ever. Foil for most of Director Lubitsch's fun-making is gawky, good-natured Gary Cooper, a wealthy, clean-shaven Bluebeard loose on the Riviera after seven short-order U. S. marriages. Believing that "Lovemaking is the red tape of marriage," he wants to marry in haste when he meets pertly marriageable Claudette Colbert. When she learns of the previous seven wives, she treats him to six months of honeyless honeymooning. When eventually remorseful Claudette is ready...