Show NEWS THIS WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON EW YORK reginald denny anthe 1 the one time professional boxer who became a motion picture star develops his toy airplane hobby into a business he robot planes Is rings up a sale ex pug dennis of six robot hobby business planes to uncle sam to be used in army experiments next summer they are expected to be curtain callers for larger and moie business like robots flying without pilots guided by radio beams dusting TNT on intruders reginald denny will be re as the actor extolled a decade or so ago as I 1 the typical wholesome young american to then he turned out to be an englishman a flier and machine gunner in the british royal air force in the war A light comedian he had two absorbing interests his screen antics and what seemed at the time a juvenile absorption with mi miniature mature airplanes from the latter he developed some ideas about radio controlled planes lie ile hushed the reginald denny in bustnes dust dus tries nes with james blackton an experienced technician as manager lie ile is making a small I 1 flying torpedo designed for flying in swarms with no pilot 0 o and with land control of the bomb dropping as well as guid ance when completed the united states will get it he ran away from school at the age of 16 to play for charles frohman at the duke of york s theater his first featured role was in the merry widow then he became a professional boxer later champion of the second corps of the royal air force ador ELSON T JOHNSON dor to china coming home by a side door as japan slams the open door probably will have in m his hip pocket a copy of A scholar and the analects I 1 bagster gagster of confucius envoy johnson barring barring possibly alice in won derland to which he also packs around with him it is his fa favorite reading like henry R curran deputy mayor of new york he believes that public activities and atti ath tudes audes should be infused with hu mor more than any other american he has been success ful in translating our best an theology of pullman car gags to the chinese following the labyrinth of confucius and lao tze he finds a unique approach to the chinese mind and has been one of our most successful ambassadors but back home he is sharp exact statistical and thoroughly occidental among which attributes is a line of up and coming chamber of commerce oratory he lives in two worlds after his graduation from george washington university mr johnson mixed with the indians of the southwest picked up indian dialects with remarkable facility thereby dincov ering his linguistic gifts that sent him to china as a student interpret er in in the far east he has occupied many important posts and is a former assistant secretary of state he ile finds the chinesa chinese have a lot more humor than the japanese IT WAS about three years ago that the head of the german Mit national ional institute of physics denounced ed the debased jewish atom and prom ased to deliver group ArmstO aims to to the reich an keep scientific untainted I 1 ar inquiry free yan atom un der the banner of the pragmatic and do dogmatic ma I 1 ic spirit t in physics this sc scientific revolution has been advanced by the nazi savants and at last american scientists mobilize against it dr franz boas 80 year old german born american anthropologist heads a committee of eight distinguished scientists in publishing a manifesto signed by 1284 1 of their colleagues leaders in all branches of science throughout america they I 1 defend the right of scientists to speak the truth as they under stand it I 1 dr boas spent about 55 years studying long heads and round heads but was stymied by the square heads I 1 if the world goes crary what can we doa I 1 he J said resigning from columbia university umer sity two years ago he came to this country to attend the chicago world worlds s fair in 1893 after an arctic expedition which had launched his career as an anthropologist po logist he remained to coach vir dually all great american anteio apologists anil and to become a world authority in linguistics primitive men bality folklore ethnology and send ity the old germany honored him the new germany made an extra special bonfire of his books 0 consol datedness dated news feature features ce |