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This extraordinary traveler said that his most harrowing experience took place on Devil's Island, the notorious French prison. Here he lived with the prisoners and underwent the hardships of the life that kills half of the new prisoners each year...
...year 1929 has been a disastrous one," said he last week. "Let it go to the devil! I hope 1930 will be easier and enable me to retire and rest in peace...
...retain the Nep,"* said the cold Man of Steel, "it is because the Nep, in its way, serves our cause. But when the Nep ceases to do that then we shall throw the Nep to the Devil...
Cinema. An endless tape bound round and round the world is the U. S. cinema film. Last week Londoners flocked to see Masks of the Devil while Paris and Berlin gaped simultaneously at The Broadway Melody. In the French chamber arose Deputy Gaston Gerard last week to exclaim: "In the domain of the cinema we have become virtual tributaries to American productions. Americans already hail [the talkies] as a vehicle for spreading the English language over the world. It is an immense and implacable effort for intellectual colonization that threatens...
...accused he lost his seat in parliament, seemed ruined. But another scandal?the Dreyfus case?made him a hero. As editor of L'Aurore he wrote the famed caption "J'Accuse!" above the most potent of many articles by Emile Zola which eventually freed Jewish Captain Alfred Dreyfus from "Devil Island," where an anti-Semite French government had sent him to rot. The fight to free Dreyfus took six of Clemenceau's and Zola's best years. Last week the grateful captain stumped around to sign M. Clemenceau's visitors book, just before...