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Died. Thomas Dixon, 82, unreconstructed Southern novelist; in Raleigh, N.C. His best-known work, The Clans man, an idealization of the original Ku Klux Klan as the South's knights in shining armor, became the first million-dollar movie (The Birth of a Nation, 1915). Lawyer, politician, Baptist minister, son of a Klan founder, he capitalized on race prejudice, harped loud & long on white ("Aryan") supremacy, sold over 5,000,000 copies of his 20 novels...
...summer day in 1853, the port of Uraga was decked in holiday style. Brightly painted, flag-festooned screens lined the shore of lower Tokyo Bay. Soldiers paraded in burnished armor. Elegant emissaries of the Mikado in exquisite brocades, and velvets turned out to greet Commodore Matthew Perry as he debarked from the U.S. man-o'-war Susquehanna...
...Arms, No Armor. In Southampton, England, Army officials required U.S.-bound war brides to swear that they had no guns or ammunition...
...Armor & Pink Tights. Reviewer Shaw has nothing to say about the other five; to him Actress Ellen Terry is Topic A. The great Playwright conducted a long and passionate correspondence with the great Actress, but rarely met her-by a well understood agreement to keep everything platonic. Now, 17 years after Ellen's death, Shaw takes care to get it on record that there was nothing much between Watts and Ellen. Writes...
Ellen was only 16, and Watts 47, when they were married. He admired her youth and spirit, dressed her in armor to pose for The Watchman. The armor was heavy, and as he was putting the finishing touches on the picture, she crashed to the floor in a faint. Watts' middle-aged lady friends, who treated him as a tame prophet and his studio as a shrine, looked askance at bouncy Ellen, and when Watts' child-wife danced in on a dinner party dressed in pink tights, it was decided that she must go. Her later fame came...