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...Savannah, Elliot Mitchell bought a pair of second-foot shoes, had a misery when he put them on, probed into the toe of the tightest one, pulled out $30 in bills...
...there remained some 1,000 wild animals including 40-odd elephants, twoscore lions & tigers, a pair of rhinoceroses, three giraffes (the fourth broke his neck looking at the scenery between Sarasota and New York), many a seal (the best known of which plays crazily on a horn), and a variegated assortment of porcupines, camels, cranes, storks, milgai, kangaroos, monkeys, baboons, dromedaries, tapirs, leopards, hippopotamuses, hyenas, bears, gnus, parrots & macaws, deer, pumas, an audad, a bok and a gemsbuck. There were many horses (735 by the program) and many a zebra. There were such subhuman animals as The Men from Mars...
...lungs are a pair of sponges through which oxygen passes from the air into the blood. The oxygen rides with the red cells of the blood through the arteries to every part of the body. Life is a slow, low-burning fire which oxygen keeps going. Product of the combustion is carbon dioxide. The blood, relieved of its oxygen, carries carbon dioxide through the veins back to the lungs. Venous blood is dark red with carbon dioxide; arterial blood is bright red with vigorous oxygen. The lungs inhale oxygen, exhale carbon dioxide. The heart is simply an alert pump...
...jewelry and he goes right on to find the secret love nest. One rather suspects he knew about it even before the play started, because he's the kind of detective that does known everything and, besides, he is acted by the author himself. He persuades the cuckolded pair to "play it my way" and succeeds in getting the goods on the sinners after innumerable complications. And in the end, in his same omnipotent way, he gets signed confessions, steamship passages, gems, --sorts them out to the various principals, and leaves the world a happier and better place to live...
...addition he has found time between building scale models, carpenter's blue prints, electricians' light plots, laying out color schemes, to make a number of brilliant back stage sketches. One of these, a large water color of a lean, complacent French clown drawing on a huge pair of rose-colored gloves, would be worthy of attention if its author did not know the difference between a fly loft and a fire hydrant...