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...legislative maces that look like clubs. Almost none were ever weapons. But last week the Legislative Council of the Fiji Islands got a true weapon-mace. In future no Fiji Councillor may introduce a bill or make a speech or have his vote counted unless the venerable skull-cracker of King Cakobau, last native ruler of Fiji, lies upon the table...
King Cakobau's cracker has had an interesting history. After he had bashed the heads of his rebellious subjects with it, he waved it for many years over the more peaceable ones as a scepter. In 1874 King Cakobau's war club was presented as a symbol of submission to Queen-Empress Victoria. Tactful King George lately ordered it sent back to Fiji, where His Majesty's Governor Sir Murchison Fletcher of the Fiji Islands last week offered it to the Legislature...
Died. Edward J. Moriarity, 66, old-time Yale barkeep; of heart disease aggravated by corpulence; in New Haven. In "Tuttle's," his pungent stube behind a cracker & cheese store, Yale undergraduates for over 40 years quaffed beer, sang songs, learned lore. There was written, and there first sung by Ed Moriarity, "There's a Long, Long Trail A-Winding...
...done about one-third of the scenery for the Metropolitan Opera, all scenery for Ziegfeld. He gradually crept back into architecture. In recent years he has designed the Ziegfeld Theatre, Palm Beach palazzi for Edward Hyatt Hutton, Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle Jr., a Gingerbread Castle for Wheatsworth Cracker Co. and the New York School for Social Research, his most successful building to date. Between times he keeps up with his stage work, designs furniture, lace curtains, trunks for Hartman, an automobile for the New Era Motors, and dress fabrics. A convivial soul,'he can work 16 hours...
...alligator bite (TIME, April 13) ; Vladimir ("Vovo") Perfilieff, artist and general director; Floyd Crosby, first camera man, now busi ness manager, and his wife (only woman with the party) ; James T. Rehn, zoologist ; Vincent Petrullo. ethnologist ; Arthur Rossi, cameraman; Ainslee Davis, sound engineer; Uncle George Rawls. famed Florida cracker guide: and the dogs. The dogs, typical U. S. hunters, have contributed largely to the expedition's game catch. Most are foxhounds. Others are foxhound-bloodhound crosses. Two are fox terriers. Value of the hounds against jungle beasts was moot when the expedition left the U. S. last winter...