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...illustration of their principle, Brown and Wilson, both specialists in entomology, described one kind of jungle ant which breakfasts at nine on other insects. By noon, it is asleep while a cousin species hunts for similar insects. No fights, occur, they stated...
...cheer. When the curtain arose disclosing the 'picture'--hero on a tree, cast kneeling before him on the ground, their plight soon became evident. The hero fell headlong from the tree and lay prone upon the stage, and when rescue came, it was found that the chorus was sound asleep to a man. The curtain redescended immediately...
...Cure. In Victoria, B.C., Norris Harwood was fined $35 for careless driving after he took his car out at 4 a.m. to end an attack of insomnia, smashed into a parked truck when he fell asleep at the wheel...
Jazzman Sidney Bechet soloes in his own Ballet, which has been a success in France. The story concerns a somnambulist who kills his family while he is asleep, only to be led to his own death by a slave. The music at first alternates between late romantic and jazz styles, then combines the two. The jazz is excellent, while the classical sections are rather dramatic. When combined, Bechet has an interesting musical admixture that fits the weird story...
When a play is going to consider the implications of what little boys and girls do at five in the morning when Papa is asleep, it is generally sophisticated or moral. Debut attempts, and fails, to be the former, and has a careless disregard for the latter. The result is an innocuous bit of piddle, diffuse in conception and dull in execution...