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Last week British airmen zoomed over the Afric Sudan, raining down bombs upon maddened, defenseless, uncomprehending herds of cattle. Boom! Above the basso of the bombs blood spurted fortissimo. Boom! Mangled flesh and splintered bones crescendoed high. BOOM...
Stranger than the Afric prancings of the race of Hot & Tot* are the quaint folk ways of London playgoers wishful of economizing by sitting in the second balcony. Seats of such altitude are not reserved and can only be bought a short time before curtains rise. Therefore hardy balcony patrons gather betimes to form their amazing queues...
...awful kaffir curse, loud blank shots, and much booming of Afric drums, marked the opening at a theatre in drowsy, medieval Prague, last week, of a U. S. thrill-drama, The Witch Doctor,* once known to Manhattanites as a poor imitation of White Cargo. After three of the characters had been clumsily and blatantly "killed" on the stage, famed Czechoslovakian Playwright Antoine Trych rose from his orchestra seat, drew an automatic pistol, and fired two shots over the heads of the actors. Amid the ensuing deadly hush, he cried: "I protest at the showing of this play in Prague! . . . Many...
...last Josephine Baker was cornered, in her Montmartre night club, by reporters who demanded detailed explanations. Miss Baker, clad in an Afric dance costume of bright feathers, shrugged nervously, grinned, confessed: "Stories sure do travel fast. It was all something I told my friends for a joke-and see how everybody has taken it seriously. The wedding I spoke of was only just a movie wedding...
Pieces typical of Brancusi's work are his "Eve," which might be mistaken for an Afric religious symbol or a representation of a huge mushroom which has been neatly clipped by a lawnmower; his "Golden Bird," which resembles an immature onion; his "Penguins," which looks like a badly constructed snowman; his "Study of Mlle. Pogany," which resembles nothing so much as drip pings from a glassblower's tube...