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Sophocles told the story 2,000 years ago of (Edipus, the kindly King of Thebes, Fate's most luckless victim. Jean Cocteau took the Greek, made a text of it for Stravinsky, gave it to Monsieur J. Danielou who put it into Latin. In Latin, then, scorning all theatrical...
The article-writing kind of explorer, of whom I am happy to say I am not one, has been responsible for the prevalent illusion that one who has climbed lesser peaks can realize what we faced in the conquest of Mt. Child Memorial. This is false. Those who have climbed...
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...
THE BLOODY POET-Desider Kostolanyi-Macy-Masius ($2.50). In a parade of purple, the emperors of Rome go through the pages of old histories with the sound of loud horns. In the annals of Tacitus and those of medieval chroniclers, these men are present; their frail lusts and meagre rascality...
Round and round these immaculate mortals and the man in red, went horses all day long. Polo ponies, saddle horses, hunters, pony tandems, draft horses, tandems, hackneys, artillery horses strapped to caissons, police mounts, jumpers, saddle tandems, road hacks. Some walked, some trotted, jumped, pulled phaetons, balked, whinnied, won and...