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...Chicago last week another blow was struck at the crumbling conspiracy of silence about syphilis. The Federal Theatre Project presented a propaganda play on the subject called Spirochete. Tracing the history of the disease and its cure from 1493 to 1937, boldly flashing microscopic plates showing the spirochete, or spiral syphilis germ, on a screen, the play for the most part proved good theatre, evoked a magnificent first-night response...
...schoolbooks as "approximately" 3.1416 or 3.14159. As a decimal it can never be expressed exactly, but the decimal value has been carried out by patient mathematicians to 707 digits. At the Paris Fair last year this huge number was written, for the edification of fairgoers, round & round in a spiral on the inside wall of a circular room...
When on the opening night the lead, Rose Lerner, tumbled down the spiral staircase backstage and sprained an ankle, Bette was less surprised at the accident than horrified at her mother's long-range powers. Later she joined the Provincetown Players, hit Broadway's fringe in The Earth Between, had an engagement (complicated by belated measles) with Blanche Yurka's troupe in The Wild Duck, a summer at the Cape Playhouse, and Broadway successes in Broken Dishes with Donald Meek, The Solid South with Richard Bennett. Two screen tests resulted, and in December 1930, Bette, Ruthie...
...wages and prices at will, Franklin Roosevelt cannot. This made the President's whole statement rather iffy. Iffiest fact of it was his concluding sentiment: "If industries reduce wages this winter and spring they will be deliberately encouraging the withholding of buying-they will be fostering a downward spiral, and they will make it necessary for their Government to consider other means of creating purchasing power." The phrase "other means of creating purchasing power" could mean only one thing-spending. Realists in Washington felt morally sure last week that unless business picked up in the spring the Administration program...
...Spiral wrappings for hot dogs...