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...intoned by 6,000 voices. To the kneeling thousands the elevation of the host was announced by a salvo of bugles. The Pope raised his arms heavenward, thrice blessed the throng. Then, remounting the podium, he was borne into the awesome, shadowed basilica. As he passed, the dark façade blazed with torches...
...Morris of the American steamer Maracaibo, leaned over the ship's rail smoking an evening pipe, gazing at the placid harbor of Willemstad, Curaçao. A thin sliver of moon hung over the tanks of the Royal Dutch oil refinery on shore, shone on the yellow plaster façade of the Governor's Palace...
...goldilock delicacy of Vivian Martin, oldtime cinema ingenue, fails to redeem the bromides which she has to deliver in her cracked little voice. All three acts are set in a modernistic cottage, so turbulently red and orange that it resembles the façade of a Coney Island rollercoaster. This play had a run of 18 weeks in Chicago as Companionate Marriage...
...George Ade, U. S. funnyman (Fables in Slang, The Sultan of Sulu, etc.) touring the world, reached Manila last week just as the aged Sultan of Sulu came to town. Said the Sultan of Sulu: "I don't know him." Said Author Ade: "Shucks, I wrote a whole musical comedy about him without an introduction. I pictured the Sultan as endowed with a remarkable sense of humor...
...river darkened and thundered towards the mill race, light came full on the high façade of decay. Incredible in its loneliness, roofless, floorless, beams criss-crossing the dank interior daylight, the whole place tottered, fit to crash at a breath. Hinges rustily bled where a door had been wrenched away...