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Hansi Preisinger, daughter of Oberammergau's postmaster was a candidate for the supreme role of the Virgin Mary. Custom demands that not only must the girl chosen be a virgin but she must remain unmarried for one year afterward. Hansi, ablest virgin actress, is engaged to an engineer in the power plant. So the tactful electors awarded her the role of Mary Magdalene, less important, more nubile...
David Alfaro Siqueiros was a drummer boy in the Villa Revolution. Afterward the Carranza Government sent him to Europe to study. As inspirations he brought back photos of Italian primitives and U. S. oil derricks. When the Syndicate was formed Painter Siqueiros became its mouthpiece. Versatile, he edited the painters' newspaper, El Machete, made speeches at mass meetings, painted the Burial of a Workman which was stoned. For distraction he lay on his bed with a revolver and shot dotted-line pictures into the ceiling. At art school he ate the fruit and vegetable still-life models, saying "a real...
...than two removes from Germany's potent Max Schmeling. About 20,000 saw the fight in Brooklyn. In Buenos Aires 50,000 volatile Latins lined the Avenida de Mayo reading round by round results flashed on bulletin boards in front of the newspapers La Prensa and La Critica. Afterward, ecstatic, they sang, cheered, paraded the streets until midnight. One man who did not parade: a pudgy auto salesman named Luis Angel Firpo, onetime "wild bull of the Pampas," who has boasted he could whip Campolo with one hand. In Campolo's little hometown, Quilmes, the populace surrounded...
...Davidson, the heir. First the police charged Guy with the murder; then even Dr. Priestley, famed criminologist whom Guy summoned, found sufficient circumstantial evidence to make the prosecution think it had a clear case. However, by calmly assuming the guilt, Guy was able, on a technicality, to go free. Afterward Dr. Priestley, discovering how the murder really happened, forebore to reveal his knowledge to the State. The story differs from others of its ilk in that, in the usual denouement of ''bringing the criminal to justice," justice here involves neither police-courts nor retribution. Murder at Bratton Grange...
...week crowds gathered by bridges and tow-paths to watch the edifying spectacle of scarlet-coated rowers in flagged and painted barges furiously chasing broods of hissing swans back and forth across the river. No useful or practical result whatsoever is achieved by nicking and classifying the swans, since afterward they simply go on swimming, breeding and hissing on the Thames...