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...this book Mrs. Millin untangles the dark pattern of its sound. Going as far back as the legendary days when Phoenician sailors stared at the bleak Cape coasts, and going into the forests where the natives have the roots of their semi-civilization, she has brought to her study of the contemporary situation a wide and valuable background...
...present she has much to say. She describes the diamond mines, the adventurers who first saw the glint of a hard fire under the dark continent, the blacks who sweat, fight and struggle to harvest the pebbles of these arid orchards. Author Millin knows about the golddiggers too, their labor unions, Johannesburg where the great companies have their offices and where, when the city is hushed at night, ftiere is still audible the pounding of battery stamps that crush the ore for gold...
...dark, moonless midnight, ten midWest yokels armed with sticks surrounded a sidetracked private car. "Wake up, Hen! Wake up, Hen!" they shouted, then thwacked the car mightfully for half an hour. "Hey! Wake up, Hen! How's your brother Bill...
...fighting man in him has chosen the most iron man of that time for a hero, and while the fabulous First Century colors, passions and mysteries of the Near East are heaped in the pages like exotic scenery beside a straight white road, the story is a lean dark runner on the road, Saul of Tarsus coursing the world with his vision. It is the first non-love-story Donn Byrne has written, the attempt of a prose-poet in his late thirties to achieve an ascetic spiritual masterpiece. The success of the effort will be strongest felt by strangers...
...Triumph of the Rat. U. S. cinema producers-content for nine-tenths of the year with dispensing sentimental froth and such subtitles as: "Morning came, but the heart of the beautiful lady was dark with despair"-may well take another look at Europe, the land of Variety, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Rat and its sequel, The Triumph of the Rat. This last named film (an English production) is "shot" from shrewd angles; contains Paris den and ballroom scenes; has a lean, dark hero (Ivor Novello) who can make love like a gentleman and gnaw a bone dramatically...