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...brontosaurus dumps them in the water, bites some of them dead. Finally they catch up with Kong. He flicks all except the producer and first mate into a crevasse, puts Fay Wray on top of a dead tree while he wins a wrestling match with a tyrannosaurus. Thumping his chest in horrid triumph he then carries Miss Wray to his mountain eyrie. The first mate finally rescues Fay Wray while Kong is pulling the wings off a pterodactyl...
...despicable and terrifying. Such is not the case. Kong is an exaggeration ad absurdum, too vast to be plausible. This makes his actions wholly enjoyable. King Kong, "conceived" by Merian Coldwell Cooper, was not made entirely by enlarging miniatures. Kong is actually 50 ft. tall, 36 ft. around the chest. His face is 6½ ft. wide with 10-in. teeth and ears 1 ft. long. He has a rubber nose, glass eyes as big as tennis balls. His furry outside is made of 30 bearskins. During his tantrums, there were six men in his interior running his 85 motors...
Died. John R. Fell, 43, Philadelphia socialite polo-player and Paris banker, divorced husband of Dorothy Randolph Fell Mills (wife of U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Mills); mysteriously, of a knife wound in his chest, while on vacation from his Paris bank with his third wife Martha Ederton Fell, onetime Follies girl; in their hotel room in Solo, Java. Following the fiction pattern of Novelist Somerset Maugham, a guest broke in the Fells' room when he heard Mrs. Fell's screams, found Fell on the floor gasping, "I did it myself. It's my fault...
...Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Perigord, aged four, slipped off a chest of drawers, broke his foot, and thereby forfeited all claim to military training and parental affection. But if a sickly cripple could not wield a saber, he could at least study the scriptures, and Maurice, aged thirteen, was consigned to the ecclesiastical limbo. Twenty years later he wore the Miter of Autun. Thence for sixty odd years the imperturbable Talleyrand stood at the right elbow of every government that held sway in Paris. Through the maze of diplomacy and intrigue he walked, smiling ironically, drinking deeply and often...
...thing and cash earns little or no return. As he has acquired investment portfolios, he has weeded out the less desirable securities. Thus he has managed not only to maintain his cash position but to build it to nearly two-fifths of all assets-a $20,000,000 war chest ready for new deals or the next bull market...