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...morning last week to watch the U. S. S. Akron dock for refueling after a turbulent transcontinental passage. Poking through a gradually lifting fog, the great ship dipped slowly three times, three times was whisked up by rising strata of warm air before the ground crews could grab the spider lines from rings on two dangling cables. The fourth time the crowd cheered as the crew caught hold, started to tug the Akron's tossing silver nose toward the stub mast...
Airplane men have their Caterpillar Club. Airship men who have dangled on ropes might call themselves Spiders. After two hours the lump at the end of the Akron's cable began to rise slowly spider-wise, toward a port in the forward part of the lifeless, floating ship. As the cable shortened Sailor Cowart's oscillations grew more violent. When he disappeared into the port, the crowd murmured with relief but no one cheered...
...Author? For 20 years a musical and dramatic critic droop-headed Sophisticate Van Vechten wrote his first novel, Peter Whiffle, at 42. Since then The Blind Bow-Boy, The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven, Spider Boy, Parties have ripened his racy fame. Besides memories he collects autographs, postcards, pamphlets, book jackets, cats...
While hardly approaching the ghoulish Intensity or earthy intimacy of the stage play from which it was adapted, "The Spider" fares acceptably under the auspices of Edmund Lowe and Lois Moran. Perhaps somewhat unsuited by nature to the role of a shrewd magician. Mr. Lowe maintains his usual affable suavity despite the fact that little chance is provided for humor. In general, the production suffers from the result of being little more than the photographing of a good stage play...
Should the wasps build their nests low and close to the water, there would be no freshets that summer. Contrary to the Bermuda spider, should the nest be built high, then look out for freshets...