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...plaster statuet of Justice went sail ing through the air, crashed against the wall. Like prudent woodchucks the three judges ducked, shouting orders to clear the court. All over the courtroom Fascists and police were mixing it up. Furious Primo de Rivera kicked impotently at the panels of the bench itself, swept off files of papers...
Side by side in the New York Times one day last week appeared the follow-ing headlines...
...glamorous Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, proficient dancer and tiger-shooter just back from India. Miss Matthews, having failed to impress a sleepy producer, poses as Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, startles London by riding down the Mall on a camel. Funniest sequence: Mrs. Smythe-Smythe is asked to demonstrate her shoot ing prowess at an Oriental party given in her honor; the gun, going off in her shaking hands, shatters a vase, knocks the cap off a musician's head, breaks a globe in the chandelier; a colonel of the Sixth Lancers, full of cocktails, duplicates these feats, shoots down the chandelier...
...years it was almost never out of his mind or off his tongue. The American Museum agreed to provide space if the exhibits were forthcoming. In 1925, hear ing that George Eastman was going to Africa to hunt, the naturalist went to the rich Kodakman and said: "Mr. Eastman, I've got to have $1,000,000." Eastman offered to pay all the expenses of an expedition, to give $100,000 besides for transportation and reconstruction of material. Carl Akeley's dream was beginning to come true. Next year he died of fever in Africa, was buried...
...blonde of a book, as meaty and hearty as an oldtime burlesque queen. When Oscar Wilde landed in Manhattan he arrived in a U. S. that was already smiling behind its hand. The rumors of his long-haired, dandiacal appearance, his likeness to Gilbert & Sullivan's flower-devour-ing Bunthorne, had preceded him. Newshawks delightedly reported his first wisecrack, when he said to the customs inspector: "I have nothing to declare but my genius." Ace Photographer Sarony posed him in his lank locks, fur-trimmed coat and velvet knee-breeches. Society's biggest fish held aloof, but smaller...