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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week the public was told that J. & L. had indeed perfected photoelectric control for Bessemer converters. Though still chary of talking technical details, J. & L. disclosed that the indicator had been used on Bessemer heats for seven months. Patenting has not yet been completed; when it is, J. & L. expects other companies to pay for the privilege of using the new process, which it counts on to produce a revolution in steelmaking...
...year-old Dr. Christiansen. The violinist son of a Norwegian blacksmith, Dr. Christiansen came to the U. S. from Larvik, Norway, went to St. Olaf College 26 years ago as head of the music department. Since then he has become the college's most respected figure, and though St. Olaf's youngsters call him "Christy" behind his back, they would never dare address him as anything but Dr. Christiansen...
...small tangerine-colored object"-34 years ago in Manhattan. On both sides she comes of English actors : famed Dame May Whitty is her mother, Shakespearean Actor Ben Webster her father. Acting since childhood, Margaret Webster slid into directing because the field was less crowded, but admits she prefers acting. Though she professionally directed a score of plays in England, it was in the U. S. three years ago, with Evans' Richard II, that she first directed Shakespeare. Directing plans for next year: Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard. Some day: Shakespeare's Troilus and, Cressida, Macbeth...
Margaret Webster finds Broadway much more exciting than London, though she protests that Broadway still reveals "an awful hangover from what the Shuberts did in 1910." Her favorite U. S. directors are Guthrie McClintic (Mamba's Daughters), Herman Shumlin (The Little Foxes), but she. has no desire to be, as they are, a producer as well. Acting, directing, adapting plays, writing a book about her family keep her pleasantly occupied...
...growing industry. American is glad to have the more active market on the Big Board, for it may be obliged to issue more shares to improve its current weak cash position. Due to heavy purchases of new planes, its cash on hand is only about $1,030,000. Though it has still to pay a dividend, American sold last week at $25, within $1.25 of its 1939 high...