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Houdini. The man of mystery is in town for a limited engagement in a show all his own. There are, to be sure, certain interludes for singers and dancers and comedy while Houdini is upstairs changing his strait-jacket for the next escape. But the magician is the main spring of entertainment, and powerfully so. He gets out of the most hideous torture machines and performs the most incredible miracles. He includes a revelation of the practices of fake mediums (all mediums are fake according to Houdini). The show will be on the road all the rest of the season...
...have begun with the idea of how uncomfortable the poor dears must be in stiff collars, boiled shirts, dragging trousers, "kidney-exposing waistcoats", and everything else that makes the male a pleasing object, at least to himself; and ends with the suggestion that, discarding all such modifications of the strait-jacket, men attire themselves in gaudy jumper blouses, short fur coats, bright colored pajamas and shoes of vivid leathers. The desideratum suggests nothing so much as a musical comedy's presentation of a street scene in Russia...
...TIME, June 22 et seq.), last week crossed icy Davis Strait to Jack Lane's Bay, Labrador. The Bow-doiris forecastle was awash, a 400-lb. drum of gasoline had been swept overboard, a rare specimen or two collected by Naturalist Walter N. Koelz had been lost; but all hands were well and happy to be in touch once more with their home continent. The Peary, with the expedition's Navy seaplanes lashed on deck, had fared similarly. Nosing on southward, the Bowdoin ran aground, snapped her mainsail gaff in a sharp squall. At last the buildings...
...Easternmost tip of the U. S. The westernmost is Cape Flattery, Wash., jutting to sea across the Strait of Juan de Fuca from Vancouver Island...
Maude. Explorer Roald Amundsen's schooner Maude, icebound all last winter in the region of the New Siberian Islands, southwest of Bering Strait, in a fruitless attempt to drift over the North Pole, was reported last week at East Cape, Siberia, free of the ice and bound for Nome, Alaska. Though equipped with radio, the Maude has not been heard from directly for months. Presumably she was been withholding gasoline from her power generators, for use in crashing the floes. Hearing of her return, Explorer Amundsen, in Copenhagen, conferring with German dirigible experts upon a proposed pole-flight...