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...tour of Paris, London, Berlin, New York. It was the first time that theatregoers had seen a stage decorated by artists of the first rank: Derain. Picasso, Leon Bakst. Ladies in panniered hobble-skirts went into ecstasies over Nijinsky's performance of the Firebird, the Blue Bird, the Slave in Scheherazade, L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune. It was Vaslav Nijinsky who staged and introduced to the world Stravinsky's great Sacre du Printemps with its white bearded barbarians and sonorous gongs...
...Armada was fitting out! The trouble with a poet, and a novelist too, very often, is that he has never done the thing himself. He hate's work, and if by chance he has to work at the bench or in a mill, he becomes at once a wage slave and imagines all other workers have the same feeling towards work that he has." The words are Chief Engineer Spenlove's, narrator of The Harbourmaster, but the voice is Author McFee's. Few men have better right to such an opinion, for few men have so successfully combined two professions...
Captain H. E. Raabe, 73, an oldtime slave-&-ebony trader in the Solomon Islands, who once skippered a ship with Author Jack London in the crew, had set out by himself in the 40-ft. powered yawl Spindrift from Port Washington, L. I., bound for the South Sea Islands. A friend received a letter from him, describing an adventure, as follows...
...taught a few people under a tree in the open, had finally obtained an old log cabin. With the promise of enough lumber for the first building, Founder Jones called a public meeting. Result: a subscription list headed by $50 and 40 acres of land from an aged ex-slave named Taylor, first contribution to the Piney Woods Country Life School...
...Slavery and the Slave Trade." Professor Usher, Widener...