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...vicinity of San Diego at the extreme Southwest corner of the state. Thence it sweeps diagonally across Mexico and Yucatan and on out into the Caribbean and Atlantic, crossing some of the West Indies. The Santa Catalina Islands, off the Southern California coast, are directly in the path of totality, and one of them, San Clemente, is exactly on the center line, with practically the total possible duration. In Mexico other advantageous points for viewing the eclipse are at Ensenada (in Lower California), Hermosillo (in Sonora), Cuencamé (in Durango), Berrendo (in San Luis Potosi). In other parts...
...Many amateur and unofficial groups will observe the eclipse from various points in its path. The federal and state officials of Mexico, the National Railways, local astromomers are offering every possible courtesy to the visiting scientific men. The wireless station at Chapultepee Castle, Mexico City, will be opened for the benefit of the astronomers...
...dramatis personae. A brilliant, interesting, witty experiment. THE DESERT HEALER-E. M. Hull -Small Maynard ($2.00). Sir Gervas Carew was a misogynist. His wife had run off with another, so he straightway went to the Sahara and became a sheik-El Hakim-or (in English) M. D. His path crossed that of Marny, Lady Geraldine. Her husband was a perfect brute, but she was loyal. Ensued sandstorms, struggles with Arab assassins, lots of noble self-sacrifice, wads of local color. "And with a little cry. . . . she lifted her lips to his." Swift exciting rubbish by the author of The Sheik...
Tyrus R. Cobb, Detroit's famed baseball player: "In a game against the Philadelphia Athletics I exchanged blows with Third Baseman Riconda, of the opposing team, because he blocked my path as I slid into the base. Thirteen years ago, when another Philadelphia third baseman-' Home Run ' Baker-at-tempted similar tactics with me, I slid into him and ' spiked ' him-and there arose a great scandal...
...word for Mrs. Reid. Seeing the film, one can hardly question her sincerity. She probably believes she has chosen a path where others may see her walking and heed the solitary figure as a warning. Yet her advisers all along have dressed the proceeding with most offensive taste. The strident commercialism of their advertising thrusts the bitter story on every billboard in the country. At the New York opening was included the " dance of the Addicts "; a group of figures writhed and postured under lights of ghastly green, adding a final touch that seemed almost to turn again the turf...