Word: solomonic
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Martin Johnson have made many a film about wild places. Their most famed was Simba, a lion story that lost some interest because of its specialization. Now the Johnsons point their telescopic lenses at a variety of things. They start in the Solomon Islands, watching the cowardly headhunters launching a war-canoe inlaid with mother-of-pearl. In the New Hebrides a tribe is burying some old men alive; in the Big Numbers Territory some monkey men with prehensile feet peer wildly out of the trees. The Johnsons gave a movie show of Charlie Chaplin for King Nagapate's cannibals...
Hiram of Tyre. At Jebeil, Phoenicia, industrious Germans unearthed a statue of heroic proportions. After much learned controversy, the diggers agreed that the statue must be that of King Hiram I of Tyre, who reigned as a contemporary of Solomon, 480 years after Moses had led the children of Israel from the wilderness and a diet of manna. King Hiram was something of an entrepreneur for his time: Solomon needed aid for the building of his temple, the mighty House of the Lord; Hiram had certain supplies and many artisans. They bargained. The outcome was that Hiram sent Solomon hewed...