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...with a sensuous background, puts on the show year after year. As the last whoops of one carnival die out in the warm spring breezes off the Gulf, diligent managers are promoting the program for the ensuing year. They call in artists, discuss costumes and motifs; they plan and plot, calculate. The show must go on! It is a mint. Then there is the tradition which must not be overlooked...
...England transcendentalists which included Emerson and Hawthorne among its members, will know, became immortal when he made his famous experiment at Walker Pond. Here, desiring to prove that man could be as independent as the animals, he lived in a hut supporting himself by tilling a small plot and doing odd jobs in the neihboring village--and renouncing the society of men, for the society of birds...
During December rumors too vague to be set in type began to filter from Italy that a plot to dethrone the King and proclaim Signer Mussolini Emperor had almost succeeded...
...concensus of reports to date: 1) During November, Undersecretary for Aviation Italo Balbo and General Emilio De Bono, Governor of Tripolitania, perfected the details of the plot. (They with Signer Mussolini led the famed march on Rome [1922] which brought Fascismo into power.) 2) A letter from General De Bono to Secretary Balbo concerning the plot fell into the hands of General Pietro Badoglio, the Army Chief of Staff, and a staunch, loyal monarchist. 3) General Badoglio promptly called a cavalry regiment and two artillery regiments to Rome, ordered them to guard King Vittorio Emanuele and the royal family...
...Third Degree (Dolores Costello) was once a startling play dealing with brutal police and their peculiar methods of bleeding confessions out of tortured hearts. The picture staggers ineffectually over the same plot. Everybody suffers: strong, silent men; good, beautiful, true women; the audience...