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Captain Ludovici is answered in much the same vein from a far-flung Anglo-Amazonian outpost by the second wife of the Hon. Bertrand Arthur William Russell, lately-retired scholar of Cambridge University...
QUEEN CALAFIA-Vicente Blasco Ibanez-Button ($2.00). Ibanez has had excellent motion pictures made from at least two of his romances. The shadow of the silver screen is never lifted from this one. The plot is based on the legend of an Amazonian queen who loved her bitterest foe. In modern Madrid, Conchita Douglas, a woman of spectacular proportions who did not hesitate to demolish bare-handed a sinewy gentleman who caused her annoyance, fell in love with the son of an old enemy. Realizing that she was too old for him, she resolved to sacrifice herself, told him (falsely...
...young Balboas do not insist that there is a short-cut to the Pacific through Brazil, they believe themselves to be on the trail of a strange tribe of Indians ruled over by a squad of two hundred white women. Here is, indeed, a case of snarled complexes--Kawaian, Amazonian, perhaps even a "Green Mansion" complex. The details of the story were given to the party by a sea-faring man in a waterfront saloon of Marseilles. He had once travelled near the land of the multitudinous queens and had been told of their ex-stance by down-river Indians...
...reported author is found, could exist a student so disloyal to the college, so untrue to all her better instincts. If it is true, it is a truth to make one blush for her sex." Just think of it! "Blush for her sex!" I don't believe an Amazonian virago could have felt more virtuous indignation if the postman had handed her a billet-doux without a coat-of-arms on the envelope...