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Tooth & Claw- The Beatty cat act is so thoroughly dramatized and "hoked up" to get the last tingling thrill from the most distant customer, that the skeptical are likely to be unaware of the act's real dangers. The lunges, feints and sham attacks of his beasts help make it a magnificent feat of showmanship, but they are not what Beatty worries about. Lions hate tigers and tigers hate lions, and in this atmosphere of hate the unexpected is always on the verge of happening. Beatty started mixing lions and tigers of both sexes in 1926 after a wise...
...Cousin Newbold found Cousin Wallis "still as gay, still as witty, but now she smiles more often than she laughs . . . diamonds and rubies . . . two orchids . . . bruised and sick at heart . . . ripened and matured. . . . She is 39 years old, other reports to the contrary. . . . She hates cats and flying and sham and winter sports (although she has tried them in company with the ex-King...
...intelligent fashion with a situation that was rapidly becoming untenable. Faced with a schedule which presented no natural rivals and denied the stimulation of an objective match toward which to point, the boxing team was like a solitaire artist, unable to offer its wares to competition. Now that the sham responsibility of meeting incompetent and undesirable opposition has been lifted from its shoulders, the team can turn its attention to the wealth of intramural activity that lies in store...
...built, mounted and operated like a machine gun except that a trigger squeeze shoots a number of frames on a 16 mm. cinema film instead of a burst of bullets. After a sham battle, the pilots can see, precisely, where shots would have gone had they been firing a real gun. If there is any argument as to who "hit" first, the question is instantly settled by the time recorded to a split second on the film. List price of a machine-gun camera...
With a nice sense of psychologies, both British and Italian, new First Lord Sir Samuel had spectacular "sham battles" fought at Malta during the week. Simulating Italian bombers, British planes droned over Malta for three hours. On land antiaircraft batteries belched sheets of flame. British first-aid squads dashed about the streets pretending to succor the imaginary wounded, this bit of realism being frankly copied from Germany and Japan...