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...spectacled. Editor Oursler is 38, wrote his first play when he was 9. At 16 he was a reporter on the Baltimore American, at 19 its music critic. He was a piano salesman, law clerk, professional magician before hitting his stride as a novelist and play wright. (Plays: The Spider, Behold This Dreamer. Books: Sandalwood, Stepchild of the Moon.) Few years ago he attached himself to Publisher Macfadden, wrote The True Story of Bernarr Macfadden as a serial in Physical Culture...
...Spider (Fox). A man sitting in the audience of a vaudeville theatre is murdered. The performers in the theatre, a pair of magicians, are suspected of the crime and members of the audience are implicated. One of the magicians uses black magic and sleight-of-hand to find the real culprit. When The Spider was produced on the Manhattan stage four years ago, a fair proportion of the characters in it were seated in the pit of the theatre in which it was produced; this method of staging mystery plays became so popular that for a few months the lobbies...
...prominent member of the Hoover cabinet recently asked a representative of Siam, "How far is it from the coast?" But Siam is not in fact an island, quite the reverse. Shaped like a plump spider, Siam squats between French Indo-China and British Burma on the mainland of Asia, faces the Gulf of Siam, darts a narrow tongue of Siamese territory 600 miles down the Malay Peninsula. Population: 11,506,200. Area: more than four times that of the State of New York...
...takes Rachel to Atlantic City where she hopes to find her vanished lover and where Mr. Hargrave hopes to accomplish his end. Neither succeeds. Returned to the kitchen, Rachel jumps from the roof, Mr. Hargrave enacts another one of his hysterical scenes which brought him into prominence in The Spider and Houseparty. With Privileges is meagre theatrical fare...
...Smith and Dr. Hans Zinsser of Harvard's Department of Neuropathology, Dr. Morrison killed five dogs suffering from running fits, made histological brain examination. He found the nuclei of the brain cells broken into bits, with chromatin scattered throughout the cell body. He discovered also great clusters of spider and mossy cells of the neuroglia around the small blood vessels in the white matter of the brain. In normal tissue, these supporting cells should be distributed in rows throughout the white matter. Cell peculiarities of the type found by Dr. Morrison are common in diseases like pellagra, which...