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While working for a newspaper several years ago, Mr. Williamson conceived the idea of taking undersea pictures from a water-tight, steel tube with a window in its bottom, suspended from an object on the surface. The plan worked successfully, and he soon organized a company of submarine photographers, and set out for the West Indies...
Famed because of the "window" in her stomach, noted as an object of important research, Jessie became accustomed to sightseers who were taken to her stall and allowed to peek at her punctured flank. Although last month she was moved to a new stall to insure privacy for further tests, Jessie died. Last week, her carcass was disintegrated in a fertilizer factory...
...picture is no more unfaithful to its material than other, franker attempts to make scenarios out of Conrad's books. The adventurous and fantastic shell of the story has been preserved; the thought that burned behind Conrad's carved phrases and balanced sentences like light behind a stained glass window, making the queer figures in the glass live after a fashion, is gone. Nancy Carroll is a girl who plays the violin and sings in Zangiacomo's Ladies' Orchestra in a South Sea island hotel run by a man named Schomberg. Richard Arlen helps 'her to escape from disgusting fates...
Then, early this morning, she dropped her knitting, went to the window, and sniffing the balmy air, decided that, after all, her boys should not work so hard in the so-called cultural courses; just some gentlemanly browsing would be enough. Now, it happens that these courses are generally the same to which she lent her kind attention some weeks ago. But that was on a cold, wintry...
...they say that good Miss Primson is in her dotage. I cannot believe it. She is just human, subject to moods and the weather. But please take her away from the window and lead her gently back to her rocker, where she might resume her gentle chatter and her knitting; else we might confuse her with that naughty child, the Jester. Manuel de J. Manduly...