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...Guinea are the birds of paradise. In quest of these, adventurers, Australians. Chinamen, and Malays have performed exploits comparable only to those of the pioneers in our West. But with changes in styles, birds are no longer worth hunting, and while the boats of the bird hunters continue to rot on the strand, New Guinea will remain in its present state of mystery and oblivion...
...creatures come near and sacrifice their real selves to the spider. Serafino Gubbio helps the spider devour them. Not long afterwards, myriad people issue from dark places where, seeking pleasure, they have seen the ghosts made by the spider. Relieved to be out again, they say, "What terrible rot!" Serafino Gubbio is a cinematograph operator for a big company near Rome...
From the mass of testimony, some bits which stand out in retrospect are: Mr. Ford. "Mr. Ford is the strangest, most perplexing combination. Take his book on Henry Ford-one chapter reveals uncanny judgment, and the next is composed of the most utter rot. He was the company's greatest asset and also the greatest risk. He insisted on policies that were untried and which were against the consolidated judgment of other men in the automobile industry. Now that he has been so successful we can see that his judgment was sound. There was the question of the life...
...puts water in a spoon, heats it over the candle, dissolves his morphin, filters the solution through cotton, fills his needle, injects. It is to him a holy ritual. He is happiest when he has an acolyte; someone who wants to try dope-to watch the slow fire of rot filter through the novice's veins. He keeps the papers his powders come in. When he has no more dope he can lick the grains of dust clinging to the paper. Many Negroes are addicts; they took to it because it once was hard for them to get liquor...
...should. The Three Sisters. Anton Chekhov's play offered at Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre, constitutes a sufficient justification for that pioneer enterprise. For The Three Sisters is a great drama that could not possibly succeed in a Broadway house. It tells of the dry rot creeping upon a class of Russian society which, for years, has been privileged to do nothing- the petty military, the country landlord. Always the victims struggle to writhe free of the suffocating blankets of their own inertia-in this case, three sisters. They will go to Moscow, where there...