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...late great Dr. Hideyo Noguchi discovered the actual germ of trachoma, contagious blinding eye disease. Drs. William Chris Fimioff and Phillips Thygeson of Denver reported to the Convention that the organism caused trachoma in monkeys. Remains to test it on a human. The test human may be Woo Dak-San, Silver City, N. Mex., Chinese sentenced to be executed for murder. To him last week was suggested a choice and to New Mexico's Governor R. C. Dillon was presented a plea-that the sentence be commuted to life imprisonment provided Woo Dak-San subject his eyes to infection...
...essential, but to do so it is also essential that the Prince of Moldavia marry the proud Princess of Wallachia. The true prince is unwilling to bother with preliminaries; hence the actor is offered his choice between a life-career in the salt mines and a chance to woo by proxy the foreign princess and bring her back for the real prince to wed. He chooses the latter and naturally falls in love with the lady he is supposed to deceive. It looks like tears for the finish until, on the day of the wedding, the real prince decides...
Managers of Wanamaker's department store in Philadelphia last week acted on their long suspicion that their 6-year-old broadcasting station, WOO, one of the oldest in the country, was "not helping the store in general or in an advertising way." "Investigation made by special inquiry among radio listeners during the past two years" had confirmed the thought. So last week store officials declared that...
June 1 they would stop WOO broadcasting...
...shoe dancing and mother. All these things dipped in good jokes and not very good music make up a musical comedy called The Merry Malones. Mr. Cohan syrups the situation with a romance of the son of a billionaire who becomes temporarily a soda fountain clerk in order to woo a poor Irish maiden. He pokes fun at his own plot shamelessly for folk in the good seats, and interrupts it incessantly with sentimental love ballads for the masses in the gallery. All this is done with ineffable geniality and unceasing speed. Folksy customers will love it; firm-minded moderns...