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...snapping piano wire. He investigated, found a young man wiggling out from a half-opened panel. The bookkeeper, who in all his years around pianofortes had never seen one with a man in it, called the police. They found the young man had 25 feet of quarter-inch rope wound around his leg, carried vitamin tablets in his pockets. He was Hans Strehl...
Thimbles, Cards and Rope. Psychiatrist Douglas McGlashan Kelley, who is director of the psychopathic ward in San Francisco Hospital, teaches simple tricks to victims .of certain mental diseases. His theory: patients who have withdrawn into themselves from shyness, inferiority complexes or mild schizophrenia (split personality) can become the life of the party if they are taught parlor magic. The tricks they learn, said Dr. Kelley, "require no brains and can't go wrong...
...most of them were seen last year in "Rose Marie," and have simply shifted from a surrounding of Canadian Mounties to one of Texas Rangers. Nancy McCord is still the best, with a voice and personality that merit better use: Alexander Gray is still too short, but adequate; and Rope Emerson is still the biggest woman we have ever seen on the stage, and quite humorous when she throws her weight around or beats a poor little piano to death. Add one very funny swivel hipped, unjointed dancer named Mclissa Mason, and you have all the reasons why "Rio Rita...
...success or failure of a powerful movement depended so completely on the oratorical genius, the political sense of a single man. At this time the German Army is determining the fate of the Reich, but when Hitler occupied the Rhineland he alone was guiding Germany over a tight-rope of political uncertainty when any slip would mean a fall disastrous to his regime. His overwhelming victory was a personal rather than a national triumph, and the psychological tactics he used are recorded in "My New Order" for the post facto wonder of those interested in his peculiar strength...
...ward, and she fixed up the dining room, sitting room and enameled kitchen to suit herself. She also cooked, sewed and acted as a nursemaid for the warden's wife. But, as it will, prison palled. On a night in May 1931 she shinnied down a bedsheet rope, and with the help of a former trusty who was then out on parole, escaped to Colorado...