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Readers of Stevenson will recall, in "The Master of Ballantrae", the Hindu servant who taught his master to feign death by "swallowing his tongue". The experiment, in that case, was not altogether successful, and the author leaves doubt as to whether the Hindu really remained alive, after two week's burial in the ground, or not. But the trick was founded on an actual oriental superstition, of which many others have likewise appeared to baffle "civilized" doctors. Perhaps later investigators, like this Frenchman, will not only explain them by natural laws rather than supernatural, but also apply them usefully...
...creature with the required grace; Anna Laying as her sentimental mother borders upon burlesque; Jackson, played by Mark Kent, is himself, no less; Edward Darney, Houston Richards, and Miss Viola Roach perform their parts well; while Ralph Remley again shows himself a master of make-up as the Japanese servant...
...which his other qualities were only tributary. His motto was "Be for things", and he lived up to it enthusiastically. As a journalist, lawyer, city attorney in San Francisco, member of the Interstate Commerce Commission and Secretary of the Interior, Lane had a varied experience as a public servant, and he gives us the full benefit of that experience in his letters...
...like Walter Hines Page, letters of advice to young men who asked for it. But some of the best are purely personal letters. To "Elizabeth" Lane directed messages which give a slant at the man from a unique angle. We find this hard-headed two-fisted public servant a poet at heart, rising above the prosaic environment he regretted...
...Wife of Man Miss Secoy Act III First Man Guest W. C. Treat '23 Second Man Guest E. H. Dewey '23 Third Man Guest E. J. Bliss Jr. '26 First Woman Guest Miss Hoffman Second Woman Guest Miss Gatlin Third Woman Guest Miss Miller Fourth Woman Guest Miss Jordan Servant W. S. Wilson '26 Act IV Doctor Mannix Walker '26 Old Woman Miss Woodworth Act V First Male Heir R. P. Gunkel '25 Second Male Heir R. A. Zinn '24 Third Male Heir Whitney Cromwell '26 Fourth Male Heir Alexander Hamilton '25 First Female Heir Miss Jordan Second Female Heir...