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Last April John Ringling had given him the run of his "Greatest Show on Earth" for a month. His subjects now were the Flying Codonas, Baby Ruth the fat girl, trapezists, clowns, elephants. He likes best the Codonas' famed Passing Leap, a feat in which Vera Bruce Codona lets go of Lala Codona's hands at the end of the swing, catapults to a trapeze which her husband, the great Alfredo, has just left.* Alfredo, leaving without kicking back the trapeze, plunges over her and catches his brother's hands at the dizzy instant of pause before...
King Kong (RKO). A cinema producer (Robert Armstrong), his leading lady (Fay Wray), his first mate (Bruce Cabot) and their entourage visit a remote Pacific island to make a nature picture. The natives seize Fay Wray, tie her up as a sacrifice to their god, King Kong. Presently the producer and his associates catch their first glimpse of King Kong. He is a gigantic whatnot resembling an ape, 50 feet tall, equipped with large teeth and a thunderous snarl. He picks up Fay Wray in one hand as though she were a frog and shuffles off through the jungle, breaking...
Back amid the restful expanse of the Hyde Park estate overlooking the Hudson, Mr. Roosevelt spent five hours talking second-string patronage with his political prime minister, Jim Farley. Jesse Isador Straus, Claude Bowers, Henry Morgenthau Jr., James Michael Curley, Howard Bruce, Homer Cummings, Clark Howell, John Cohen were some of the names the President-elect juggled about on paper to see how they might fit into the new administration. William Hartman Woodin, the new Secretary of the Treasury, arrived from Manhattan to discuss the banking situation in the light of the Maryland moratorium...
...France, Italy, Egypt, India. Spent two years in Bali 20 years ago (and produced the best paintings yet to appear from that overpainted paradise). Married and divorced the late D. H. Lawrence's friend Mabel Dodge. Made an artist of importance of his lawyer, banker, publisher friend Edward Bruce. Became the unofficial lord of the little Italian hilltown of Anticoli. In Anticoli he lives in a 48-room castle, spends most of his time and does most of his work, sitting in judgment on the peasants who bring him offerings of fruit and flowers...
...BRUCE Lockhart, an impulsive young Scotchman with a fondness for lovely ladies and a sense of humor, was Lloyd George's "schoolboy ambassador" to Lenin and Trotsky when their government was young. Women and Bolsheviks were his weakness. He relates in "British Agent" his narrow escapes from both with such frankness that one feels throughout the book the added thrill of truth...