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THE AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN REVIEW 
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Northern Lights 
Sweden Lighting Virginia 
Few people visit Washington without mak¬ 
ing a pilgrimage to Mount Vernon. If they 
go by motor and at night they will see the 
flash of the light-houses along the road at 
each dangerous turn after they cross the 
Virginia line. These light-houses, invented 
by Gustaf Dalen of Sweden, and manufac¬ 
tured by the American Gas Accumulator 
Company, have lately been installed on the 
main highways of Virginia. The Panama 
Canal also uses the Dalen lights. 
Dr. Krogh to America 
Professor August Krogh, of Denmark, 
winner of the Nobel prize for medicine in 
1920, has been invited to deliver a series of 
lectures at Yale University. He will leave 
Denmark in September and will first lecture 
at Yale, then at Columbia and Johns Hopkins. 
He intends to return to Denmark before 
Christmas. 
Mural Decoration 
The Rambusch Decorating Company has 
recently executed an interesting mural paint¬ 
ing in the Cabin department of the new office 
building erected by the Scandinavian-Ameri- 
can Steamship Line in Whitehall Street, New 
York, and opened a year ago last February. 
Fhe painting is done directly on the fresh 
mortar after the method used in some of the 
important decorations of the famous Copen- 
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hagen Town Hall. In its light, delicate tints 
it harmonizes with the room and forms an 
integral part of its setting. The decoration 
consists of three panels framed in glazed terra 
cotta. On one side is the jagged, impressive 
skyline that meets incoming boats in New 
York harbor. On the other is the tower of 
the lovely Kronborg Castle that juts out into 
the blue waters of the Sound and greets the 
voyager to Denmark. In the central panel 
we see in a burst of sunlight a steamer with 
the familiar red smoke-stacks plying between 
the New and the Old World. The coat-of- 
arms of Denmark and New York are used in 
a decorative frieze over the picture. 
