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...Spider (Fox). A man sitting in the audience of a vaudeville theatre is murdered. The performers in the theatre, a pair of magicians, are suspected of the crime and members of the audience are implicated. One of the magicians uses black magic and sleight-of-hand to find the real culprit. When The Spider was produced on the Manhattan stage four years ago, a fair proportion of the characters in it were seated in the pit of the theatre in which it was produced; this method of staging mystery plays became so popular that for a few months the lobbies...
...years ago Abercrombie & Fitch, Manhattan sporting goods store, imported a pair of water skis, sold them to the Cavalier Hotel at Virginia Beach, Va. This summer a Brooklyn German named Ernst has been cavorting in a pair on Long Island Sound...
...Austrian named Karl Naumestnik, 38, last week walked across the English Channel from Cape Gris Nez to Dover. The direct distance is 20 mi. but currents carried the walker out of his course. He made the crossing in eight hours. On his feet he wore a pair of water skis. Two other Austrians tried to follow him but grew weary...
...Mifflinburg, Pa., Jacob Miller bought a pair of red boots, wore them every Sunday for 69 years. For the last four years John Miller, now 93, has worn his red boots every...
...swamps and waterways of Saskatchewan and Alberta. Quebec has had ample rainfall (as has the entire Atlantic Coast) this summer. Quebec birds seem normal in numbers and health. In his next issue Editor Raymond Prunty Holland of Field & Stream will remark: "It is hard to believe that a healthy pair of canvasbacks, having found their home destroyed by drought, would not move on farther north, east or west. until they found suitable conditions." He would have had the new regulations delayed until it was certain that ducks and geese had not nested west of Hudson Bay. that few were going...