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Slave of Desire. The scenario is taken from Balzac's The Magic Skin. About half way through Poet Raphael (hero) meets the Magic Skin and things proceed to happen. The latter is one of those skins you love to touch. All you have to do is touch it and make a wish. Liquor, ladies and lullabies come romping in. The only difficulty was that Raphael got only so many wishes to the inch. Each wish shrunk the skin. When it reached the size of his palm he was to be introduced socially to the Grim Reaper. Before that occurred...
Jane Cowl, fresh from her memorable success as Juliet, essayed the part of Melisande. She worked into it much of her own magic of voice and peculiar beauty. Yet there was little in the play which she could seize upon and call her own. She was a living figure lost in the brambles of a formless forest...
...upon the momentary levity as the Priest held the child high in his arms, saying: "I dedicate thee, Rosa, little flower of human life, to the cause of Russian women?Rosa, sweetest of flowers; Luxembourg, honored name of a martyr?beauty and sacrifice." As if in obedience to a magic wand the entire assembly rose, and with the passion of youth and the feeling of age the Internationale was sung?then...
...There is nothing magic about the institutions of a democracy to make them take care of themselves", he said, "men of strong character must take an active part in civic life to make democracy a success. Yet this is seldom the case. Every where you will find people who obey the law and sing the "Star Spangled Banner, Justly, and call themselves good citizens. But suggest to them that they should vote or hold public office, and they would consider it preposterous. Such men are political sackers, they are a maniac to democracy...
...rate it is apparent that Pius XI has definitely associated himself with the magic word " peace" ?the Pope of Peace. And it is therefore predictable that if the piping times return to Europe, the prestige of the Vatican will be more powerful than at any point in nearly a century...