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...Schwab then referred to the youthful hardships of Bertie Charles Forbes? learning short-hand at 13 in his native Scotland; leaving school at 14 to be a printer's devil: reporting news at meagre wages for the Dundee Courier; helping to found the Rand Daily Mail in South Africa, aged 21; reporting news, at no salary, for the New York Journal of Commerce. "There were days and nights of drudgery during which the one thing he wanted was a smile," said Mr. Schwab's article...
...German film, by Ufa, creator of The Last Laugh, Siegfried, Variety, achieves a triumph in photographic fantasy. From the ever-serviceable Faust story is derived a weird fairytale, a picture story of the powers of evil on earth. Through it all goes Emil Jannings, a not particularly impressive Devil, making funny faces, playing mean pranks, raising hell. In the end, however, he loses his wager with the Lord's archangel, for Faust regained a soul by dying at the side of Marguerite with LOVE in his heart. A story not without significance, but florid rather than profound. The excellence...
Barney Barnato. Solomon ("Solly") Joel's re-emergence into the news revived interest in his dare-devil uncle, the late famed Barney Barnato, ne Isaacs, one-time Jewish peddler and contortionist on the streets of London, founder of the fabulous diamond fortune of the Joel and Barnato families which now totals at least $100,000,000. Young Barney drifted out to South Africa in the '70s when individual diggers spaded the surface soil and "panned" it for diamonds, each man with his own teetering sieve. Since "diamond earth" occurs in huge cones pointing downward, the diggers soon found...
...discloses the populace in pursuit of a witch, made fearsomely real by Mme. Ouspenskaya; Act II: Anne's growing consciousness that she too is of the devil's tribe. Just as the crisis begins to crys tallize, the medieval conception of passion as the spirit of Lucifer takes hold. Immediately, the audience is persuaded to see Anne not as a witch but as a woman of more than ordinary emotional capacity. Even the murder of her husband is extenuated by a plausible explanation of heart failure. Hence, confusion. There is a catastrophe, but it is not so much...
...other men of science (Whitney, Langley, Muir, Hitchcock, Guyot, Russell, Leconte, Tyndall, etc.), while our great peaks in southern California have "saint" names, (San Antonio, San Gorgonio, San Jacinto, San Gabriel, etc.)--Anglo-Saxon and Spanish contrasted, or science and religion, if you like. However, we have a Devil's Punch-bowl across the range from Pasadena...