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...TIME, Jan. 2), and who was confined in the State Hospital for the Criminal Insane at Lima -this man heard muffled cries in the asylum. A huge, lunatic Negro had over- powered one of the guards and .was deliberately strangling him. Was it sane courage or his own deranged brute instinct that inspired burly George Remus to leap at the Negro maniac, to smash and batter the Negro with his fists until the throttled guard could get free; to continue fighting until, with the guard's help, the Negro was over- powered and clapped into a cell...
...piece is played in the trimmest of modern clothes and plainly marked "Talk -do not recite, intone, pant, blow." It is as clear as a cinema subtitle; clearer. The plot is concentrated in the name; a villainously bad tempered woman is bewildered, wed, cowed by a big beautiful brute. Basil Sidney, who played Hamlet in modern clothes first for Manhattan, acted the tamer ably, though he appeared a trifle over-conscious of his bigness, beauty, brutality. Mary Ellis, the shrew, battled gamely and gave in irresistibly. Their troupe is excellent and the laughs resound, particularly from those who think Shakespeare...
...sole boast to uniqueness that this combat might have had is in the characters of the principals. One was touted--to the death--as a student prince; the other made an odd comeback to popularity by emphasizing those qualities which once made him an unpopular champion--brute force and a marvelous thickness of skin as regards what the public had to say concerning him. The gentlemen met before, in Philadelphia, and each would have been much happier were the other dear charmer away. Their second encounter proved more interesting, in its preliminary bombast, than the first; due to the burst...
Each of these big men boasted he would batter the other unconscious and each?though Sharkey had been coached to check his "killer" instinct and weary Dempsey by skillful boxing?reverted quickly and satisfactorily to the brute soon after the first gong sounded...
...camels. Finally, one of these missed his footing and went sprawling among the boulders, his long legs waving madly to and fro. We couldn't stop, for our would-be visitors were now only a few hundred yards behind, but, looking back a moment later, I saw the poor brute get to its feet and lumber along after...