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This has been the case in some of the most fruitful careers. Many successful men have failed in the pursuit in which they finally became eminent, or in some other, before they learned how and where to apply their strength. Every school boy is familiar with the story of Bruce taking courage when he saw the spider spin her web on the seventh trial Abraham Lincoln's early life was far from promising. Twice he attempted to conduct a local store only to have the enterprise come to a hopeless end in a few months. Goodyear tried one experiment after...
Among the witnesses called by Garvey were "Sir" James O'Mealley, a master of Calaba College, Jamaica (sent by Garvey as a delegate to the League of Nations), the Rev. Frederick Augustus Toote (a director of the Black Star Line), "Lady " Bruce, "Duchess of Uganda" (titles conferred upon her husband by Garvey), James Hercules (a boatswain of one of the Black Star Liners) and Amy Jacques Garvey (the defendant's second wife...
Claude Watson Bruce, A.M. (Astronomy...
...Professor of Astronomy, discusses "The Comparison of a Milky Way Field with one at the South Galactic Pole", and gives some "Notes on the Structure of the Milky Way". The photographs upon which the article is based were made at the College Observatory, Arequipa, Peru, with a 24-inch Bruce photographic telescope...
...followed by Oscar Wilde's Salome. The Chip Woman's Fortune, a mild little comedy, is played with extraordinary verisimilitude?with delightful warmth and grace. Salome, of course, is a more pretentious production and not quite such a successful one. Sydney Kirkpatrick made an admirably repulsive Herod and Solomon Bruce as the flea-bitten Jokanaan was noteworthy. Salome (Evelyn Freer) danced circumspectly?in fact she was oddly reminiscent of the Daily Dozen, at times ? but her interview with Jokanaan's removable top was horridly effective...