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About The Bonneville Dam chronicle. (Bonneville, Or.) 1934-1939 | View Entire Issue (March 26, 1937)
MUDAI', MARCH lì«, 19R7 T H E B O N N E V I L L E DAM C H R O N I C L E THREE Scenes and Persons in the Current News Chicago Coeds Shake a Mean Leg 1—F ren ch officialdom assem bles a t cerem onies in which a bust of the late Myron T. H errick, A m erican am bassad o r to F ran ce, is unveiled. 2—A rthur J. A ltm eyer, recently appointed chairm an of the social se curity board to succeed John G. Winant. 3—B atallion of the fam ous International brigade credited with sav ing M adrid from assaults of the rebels. U niversity of Chicago coeds “ swing it” in reh earsals for the annual show of the M irror, w om en’s dram atic society. A tower of the famous old school looms in the background, gazing down austerely or, the modern collegiate chorus girls. Left, to right: M arjorie Kuh, F ran k ie Burns. M arjorie Ryser, Louise Huffaker. See Your Voice as Others Hear It The gadget being dem onstrated here by Mme. Sara Kopelle, m ovie d ram a coach, and Nan Grey, film actress in Hollywood, is called the kym ograph. Developed by a London physicist, the device reg isters by graph the vibrations of the hum an voice, m aking m istakes in speech plainly visible. It is being used in the train in g of actors and actresses. G. B. Shaw Sits for the Sculptor NEW SOVIET OFFICIAL G eorge B ernard Shaw, B ritish playw right and caustic critic of m od ern life (left), pictured in London with the sculptor Sava Botzaris and the bust which sculptor Sava Botzaris is m aking of him which is to be cast in bronze and gilt. A recent photograph of Vice P re m ier Valery Ivanovitch Mezhlauk, who has been appointed to the post of co m m issar of heavy industry of the U. S. S. R. to succeed Gregory K. Ordjonikidze, who died recently Mezhlauk is well known in the United States, having traveled ex tensively about industrial centers here. He is an exponent of A m eri can m ethods of production. Vision of the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition A vision of the 1939 Golden G ate International exposition, now rising from the w aters of San F rancisco bay. This is A rchitectural A rtist Chesley B onestell’s conception of th a t section of the 400-acre exposition which faces Y erba Buena island and the B ay bridge, and is a t rig h t angles to the m ain gateway. Savant Discovers New Comet Dr. F red L. Whipple of the H arvard observatory, who announced recently the discovery of a new sm all com et in the constellation Canes Venatici (the hunting dogs), is shown in his office at H arvard univer sity, checking over negatives m ade a t night of the stars. The com et, which ha a tail about “ one degree long” and is of the twelfth m agnitude, was discovered by the astronom er when he exam ined a photographie plate he had taken.