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...hung himself. Golovin, voluble Russian revolutionist, had in his power a woman for whom he craved. To her he talked all night about his vicious deeds and cynical philosophy and in the morning left her unharmed, still talking about himself. Three other "histories" appear in the book. They all display Author Wassermann's virtuosity as a storyteller...
Jungle Gods is one more travel picture (this time African and made by a Captain von Hoffman) in which savages display smirking artificialities much like those so constantly practiced by semi-civilized migrates to the cinema lots of Southern California. As they go through the motions of tribal ritual-king-crowning, lion-hunting, getting married, they manage not to fall into the anticipated postures of improper ingratiation. But they are always ready to roll their eyeballs, with evident satisfaction, at the camera man, thus detracting from the illusion that their curious behaviour is entirely unaffected...
...animals, accurate geometric figures, and pictures of hunting scenes. No other Indian pottery found in this region gives any indication that the prehistoric people were interested in depicting animal life. On many pieces of the pottery are pictures of the Indians shooting bears with bow and arrow others display fights between birds and deer...
...many million people saw the first appearance of the new Ford car last week, it is impossible to estimate. In Detroit Henry Ford, his son Edsel and grandsons Henry II and Benson examined the public display before the great Convention Hall's doors were opened to let 100,000 people in. Manhattan crowds were greater. Police were obliged to regulate the queues in other "key cities," notably Kansas City, Cincinnati, Norfolk, Omaha, Boston, St. Louis, Richmond, Chicago, Washington, Philadelphia, Jacksonville, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Atlanta. In England the railroads ran excursion trains to the London exhibition. Englishmen paid...
...about 550 new cars for exhibition. However its production will approximate 1,000 cars a week by January. (The company operates only five days a week.) The aim is 8,000 cars a week. Dealers will deliver very few cars to buyers before late January. They need cars for display...