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...with a battle and ends with a siege. The body of the picture contains a massacre, a fight between a bear and a man, two horse-whippings, several murders, the spectacle of an executioner drawing a red-hot sword across a man's eyes and a sort of chariot derby between three-horse Russian droshkies. Winding through these and other divertissements, which make it easily the most eventful blood-&-thunder spectacle of the current season, is Jules Verne's 61-year-old story of a courier sent by the Russian Tsar to tell the Grand Duke, commanding...
Hotel Keeper Pani waited for the fresco to dry and set, then with superficial overpainting removed the calf-faced officer, changed the colors of the flag, changed the features of the composite dictator. Muralist Rivera once had an entire fresco panel by Jean Chariot chopped off a Mexican wall because it did not match his own work on the same building, but when his mural in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center was destroyed two years ago (TIME, Feb. 26, 1934 et ante), he raised such a howl that sympathizers enabled him to repaint it in Mexico City's Palace...
First the automobile driver lures a College tag for illicit parking; he answers his summons but holds on to the ticket. Then away to the New Lecture Hall, leave the chariot on the street with the tag, date renewed in the winshield, and think no more about it. If an authority sees the car, he observes also that its owner has already been penalized and gives the matter no further thought...
...portrait of two long-necked sisters, in the manner of David, by Sculptor Johann Gottfried Schadow, famed as the creator of the galloping chariot on top of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate...
...most notable feature of the evening was athletic rather than musical. When Rhadames (Vittorio Fullin) made his triumphal entry, who should be chained to his chariot but Jack ("Little Arthur") Johnson, Negro pugilist who once annoyed whites by being heavyweight champion of the world. Five thousand music lovers gaped and cheered while the barrel-chested black writhed in his chains and leopard skins to add artistic verisimilitude to his walk-on, nonsinging role of a captured Ethiopian general...