Word: spines
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...professor in Cooper Medical College (later the medical school of Leland Stanford, Jr., University) and an officer in various medical societies. Until two years ago he was a member of the American Medical Association. For some years he was interested in " spondylotherapy," a system of " physiotherapy of the spine" invented by him. About 1912 he began to experiment with electrical apparatus, made public his system of " electronic reactions " and since then has invented many new features and mechanisms. These he sells or rents to other physicians, giving courses in his therapeutic system at $200 tuition. Whether or not Dr. Abrams...
...possible that the début program was deliberately temperate in deference to the inexperience of American audiences in theatrical terrorism. Frantic screeds from the offices of the promoters asseverated that the true spine shatterings would begin with the second week's bill. Mild scepticism greeted these promises. The cynical theatrical population dared the visitors to rearrange its smooth marcel into a prickly pompadour...
...United States Marines collaborate with Jeanne Eagels (as a lady who isn't no real lady) to ruin the unco guid-ness of a peevishly pious missionary while tropical rain pours down incessantly on the just and the unjust and shivers chase each other on the audience's spine...
...recovers in a German hospital, is mistaken for a German and becomes a leader of post-war German thought, only to be discovered in the end by a former friend and brought back to France and his original identity−sounds somewhat like the skeleton for an ephillipsop-penheim spine-shocker. But again, as in Suzanne and the Pacific, the style is the book−as sparkling, unique and gracile as Venetian glass. The translation by Louise Collier Willcox is fairly adequate though sometimes erratic. SINBAD−C. Kay Scott-Seltzer ($2.00). Greenwich Village−studio-parties− pseudo-intellectuals...
...importation. The players of the Grand Guignol-who specialize in broad farce and recherché horrors-will come over to New York under the direction of the Selwyns, associated with William Elliott. The cadaverous M. Max and the agile Mile. Paulette (who has been murdered in more different and spine-chilling ways than any other actress on the Parisian stage) will lead the company. Eye-gouging, vitriol-throwing and premature burial are some the jovial themes employed in previous Grand Guignol productions. R. U. R. is opening in London shortly. A robot with a genuinely English accent should...