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...hard to believe that the South Pole can be vulgarized, but this has now been done and been done thoroughly. One would have supposed that the Antarctic plateau would have rejected the atmosphere of the studios; but Paramount has marvelously subdued it?split polysyllabic heroics over it, decorated it with sentimental ribbons, trodden it with captions, tickled it with humor, has supplied it with brass bands and flags and letters from home and photographs of the explorers' children on the croquet lawns of Massachusetts?with everything except, by some unaccountable omission, 'love interest'? has in brief, found it snow...
Saintly Skull. In Naples, too, though tenements were split open, though houses, churches and bridges fell, the loss of life was comparatively small. The first tremors set all the church-bells in the city to jangling. Crying Miracola! Miracola! (Miracle! Miracle!) pious Neapolitans tumbled from their houses to pray in the streets. At dawn hundreds were kneeling before the cathedral, calling upon St. Januarius...
...like Astor, put his money into Manhattan realty. Last week died Mrs. Rebecca Wendel Swope, next to last of seven grandchildren of John Wendel. Miss Ella Wendel, the surviving sister, remained sole owner of realty now worth something over $100,000,000. Since the Astor holdings are now split up among three heirs, Ella Wendel became Manhattan's land-richest individual...
...grim old house on Fifth Avenue, lighted by gas and without a telephone, is a monument to John Gottlieb Wendel. He it was who dominated his six sisters, holding all the titles to the Wendel properties in his own name, forbidding them to marry lest the family property be split up. He looked on with approval as they made their own clothes and wore the round sailor hats popular in the 1870's. Twice only did he meet rebellion. When Georgiana ran away at the age of 50 and registered at the Park Avenue Hotel, Brother John at once...
...neat little trick in the repertoire of every French Prime Minister is the one by which he picks exactly the right split-second to adjourn Parliament before Mm. Les Députés upset his Cabinet. Always as a session draws to its close French legislators become hyperexcitable, super-suspicious, jealous of their power, ready to shout the Government out of office on any pretext. All last week the Chamber was bedlam...