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Meanwhile the respected Rintaro Nishimura, hereditary hearse-maker to the Imperial House, arrived at Tokyo from Kyoto, the ancient Capital, with 50 workmen and began work on the great two-wheeled cart in which the Tenno's remains will journey to the grave. For constructing the Imperial Hearse he will receive the princely fee of 100,000 yen ($50,000). No one else knows the secret of constructing the wheels of the funeral car so that they will emit the traditional "mourning squeak." At the hubs a mechanism capable of emitting loud groans will be installed. Finally the hearse...
Neighborhood Playhouse, 466 Grand St.-- The Little Clay Cart. This is a sparkling spirited fourth century Hindu comedy, full of naivete. It is acted by the regular company of the Neighborhood Playhouse who did such a superb piece of work in the Dybbuk. This latter play is also being acted by them now, and is well worth seeing...
General Michael Borodin, the Russian field adviser to the Cantonese r threatened once more to upset the Chinese apple cart, last week, was the sudden appearance from the North of some 36,000 troops under the redoubtable "Chinese Cromwell" Feng Yu-hsiang. Feng was driven into the Mongolian fastness last spring. Nominally he is the friend of the Cantonese, but the ways of the "heathen Chinee" are no more "peculiar" than those of General Feng who is a Christian according to his lights...
...peasant trundled his cart in from the suburbs of Lyons last week. The cart was heavy. Beneath a load of warm manure nestled 110 pounds of golden 20-franc pieces done up in sacks. Arrived at the Bank of France the peasant, Jacques Brosson, winnowed out his sacks of gold, exchanged them for 730,000 paper francs, hired a taxi, returned home to hoard paper which he believed would soon appreciate...
...only is Judas more superfluous than a fifth wheel on a cart, but he is an absurdity, explicable only as a manifestation of the hatred felt by Gentile Christianity against the Jewish Christians during the second century...