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...most sophisticated Russian litterateur," said that the Tarzan vogue was due to "the love of fairy tales instinctive in primitive peoples in general and Russians in particular. "Our revolution killed the fairies, just as education killed them in Western countries. But if you dress up Jack the Giant Killer in a sufficiently modern guise to give him at least a semblance of probability, the masses will love him as did their fathers and grandfathers. And to the fact that Tarzan takes his readers away from strenuous complicated modern life can be attributed the secret of his success. "In my opinion...
...Lady Killer. While the murder of a young lawyer is supposed to be perpetrated in this comedy, the real victim is the spectator. The Lady Killer is a preposterous compound of claptrap and labored humor, which seems to have been written solely with an eye to the cinema rights...
...dumbly adoring stage. When not yet 15, he, like Keats, became an apothecary's apprentice, but an injured knee forced him to give up the trade and he returned to school, and later went to the University of Königsberg. Meanwhile, he had become somewhat of an innocent lady-killer, but an experience with an anonymous married lady of easy virtue brought its not uncommon legacy of revulsion and bitterness. Already he wrote in secret...
Italians are asking whether " lady-killer " has two meanings; for Benito decreed that no expensive gowns shall be à la mode! Until such time as Italy shall have found herself financially, it is an unpatriotic act for any Italian woman to wear other than simple and inexpensive clothing...
Certainly human nature does not change, notwithstanding what is said to the contrary. Just now there is a shock being endured by some minds because of the post-mortem honors being shown to Tom Slaughter, confirmed criminal and cold-blooded man-killer, who was assassinated by one of his own class after escaping from prison in the most romantic style imaginable...