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...tale of other peoples' struggles and sufferings and defeats. At least one could get a decent meal and still work in Widener--they had no stopped that yet. And after all, he was imprisoned voluntarily--no one compelled him to come to Harvard in the first place or to slave and moil and toil and strain his eyes in a library hemmed in by windows plated with steel. He had sentenced himself to this incarceration...
...first third of the book tells of Joseph's trip into Egypt, the slave of a prudent, toothless old merchant who recognized his talents, purchased him and planned to sell him to a household where his gifts might be valued. For the 17-year-old Joseph, intelligent, intuitive, and up held by a mysterious conviction of his destiny, the trip is a succession of marvels...
...George Sanders. Russian-born of British parents, Sanders made a great stir in his first Hollywood role, as the foppish Lord Stacy in Lloyd's of London. Immediately earmarked for stardom by Producer Darryl Zanuck, he has been undergoing a melodramatic course of sprouts (Slave Ship, Lancer Spy). International Settlement makes it clear that, even in the presence of seasoned troupers like prettily prognathous Dolores Del Rio, the sound stage is his whenever he walks...
...palatial 3O4-ft. steam yacht Liberty was built in 1908 by the late eccentric Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, who was such a slave-driver that his retinue of male secretaries called their floating home the Liberty, Ha Ha. The late Courtenay Charles Evan Morgan Viscount Tredegar, wealthy coal man, bought the yacht from Pulitzer, made it a navigating hospital. The third owner, the late Fanny Lucy Radmall Lady Houston, wife of the Houston shiplines director, hung a huge electric sign, DOWN WITH MACDONALD THE TRAITOR, in the rigging, sailed the English coast. Last week the old Liberty was sold for scrap...
...display of carnage in the first issue shows a hypnotized man with his lips pierced with pins, kosher beef being slaughtered, a bloody nose-bobbing operation. Most of the rest of the magazine is chiefly suitable for decorating the walls of a college fraternity house-layouts "unmasking" the white slave trade, why Toms peep and at what, finally a section devoted to colored illustrations of off-color jokes and "French art studies...