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...today is part of British Nigeria, a prosperous city of 35,000 blacks with paved highways and scarcely a trace of the old City of Blood. Under British guidance a king still rules there. Though he affects the coral headdress of his ancestors and a curved executioner's sword still precedes him wherever he goes, he wears gold-rimmed spectacles, speaks with an Oxford accent, and was discovered last year seated in a rocking chair, reading Lord Chesterfield's Letters...
...English a radio broadcast to U. S. listeners in which the wily Ethiopian cried: "You people of the United States can help . . . inflict ... the international form of punishment, known as sanctions, upon the Italian people." But the King of Kings concluded, "I ask no one to take the sword against Italy...
...unarmed priest could make peace with a powerful tribe in Central America, bringing 80,000 under the rule of Spain almost without loss of life. In some respects the priest's diplomatic problem was almost as great as the one Cortes settled with fire and sword. He was compelled to deal with a native king whose subjects wanted war and with Spanish soldiers who were no more pacific, succeeded by relying on tact, patience and the knowledge of native ways acquired in two centuries of conquest. More impressive for its sweeping interpretations than for brilliant descriptions or picturesque details...
...Fairbanks performed in 1921 was a screen classic in its own right. That any subsequent version of the Dumas work would seem tame by comparison was almost inevitable. Consequently, it is to the credit of Author Dumas, Screenwriter Dudley Nichols, Director Rowland V. Lee and a cast of capable sword & cloak actors that this one is still a handsome, charming, and vivacious costume melodrama which, if something less than a cinema milestone, is still better than average entertainment...
...Author. In his 50 years Frederick Britten Austin has written some 20 blood & thunder volumes, most of them characterized by grandiose imaginative conceptions. Thus The Red Flag dealt with the progress of revolution through the ages while his interminable A Saga of the Sword described in terms of romance the development of war from prehistoric times. Born in London, he attended the Grocers' Company School and Hackney Downs, enlisted in the British Army in 1914, was demobilized in 1919 with the rank of captain. His first literary success came during the War. when he wrote a story about...