Word: visitor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wine of Youth. Rachel Crothers' play Mary the Third has been poured into the cinema mold and turned out in the old, familiar fashion. There was a note of uncertainty in the original that reminded one of A Doll's House and gave the visitor a mental bone to gnaw. But the mentality of cinema audiences is not nourished on bones. They are supplied with oozing fritters drenched in the syrup of the happy ending. The story has to do with three generations of married life, with various reflections on modern youth. Eleanor Boardman is an acceptable heroine...
...appearance impressed all those who came in contact with him. An enquirer, struck with the man's knowledge, would often terminate a brief conversation by politely asking for his position and name. "Inspector of the Secret Police, Comte de Ségalai," he would answer. And the enquiring visitor would walk away, more than ever impressed...
...anyone should ask me, I would say that Miss May Sinclair was the almost perfect English visitor to these shores-and this quite aside from the fact, or perhaps you may think because of the fact-that she is one of our finest living novelists. She came unheralded by brass bands, press agents, or agents of any sort. Such reporters and interviewers as wrote to make appointments with her she saw. The dignity of these meetings was admirably reflected in their published interviews, proving that the American reporter has, after all, respect for a fine mind and a becoming presence...
Under the great central dome and in adjoining rooms are a series of exhibits illustrating striking natural phenomena and scientific discoveries, so arranged that the visitor may himself perform the experiments. They include: ¶ Mirrors to catch the sunlight at all hours and project it through a telescopic lens in an image showing the sun spots. ¶ A spectroscope to resolve the sun rays into the component colors, showing the Fraunhofer lines of the various chemical elements in the sun's spectrum. ¶ The interferometer of Dr. A. A. Michelson, with which he measured the wave length of light...
...tivity of the molecules, can be seen. ¶ The formation of crystals under polarized light, showing how the world would look if we had the power of seeing by ultraviolet rays. ¶ Faraday's classic magnet apparatus side by side with the latest developments of radio. The visitor can control the exhaustion of a vacuum tube, and the beautiful effects of electrical discharge through the rarefield gas. ¶ The famous dinosaur eggs discovered by the third Asiatic expedition of the American Museum of Natural History...