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Fenway -- "McFadden's Flats." P.M., 2.32, 5.08, 7.44, 10.20. "The Florentine Dagger...
Paramount--"McFadden's Flats," A.M., 9.00, 11.37; P.M., 2.14, 4.41, 7.18, 9.55. "The Florentine Dagger...
...Young,* 52, famed archer; after an appendectomy; at Harvey, Ill. An expert pistol and rifle shot, he turned to bows & arrows "because it gives the beasts a chance." In 1925 he went to Africa with Stewart Edward White and the late Dr. Saxton Pope, killed seven lions with his dagger-pointed arrows. He slew walruses in Greenland, a 1,300-lb. bear on Kodiak Island...
Once morbid Japanese ripe for Death would dispatch themselves with a dagger, elaborately disemboweling themselves in a ritual of exquisite pain. Today such heroic acts of hara-kiri ("belly-cut") are rare. Suicide has gone cheap, and last week Japan's go-getting suicide tycoon, owl-eyed Jinnojo Hayashi, scored another coup. For the second time this year sensation-hungry tourists at his Suicide Point witnessed a triple plunge into the sulphur-stinking maw of Death...
...Suicide Point has come even the Son of Heaven, sublime Emperor Hirohito. who ably repressed any impulse he may have felt to jump. For the common run of modern maladjusted Japanese a leap into the volcano seems infinitely more attractive than to plunge a dagger into his vitals in the classic way. Last week the usual group of perhaps 150 sightseers were clustered fascinated on the brink, regaled by their guide with gruesome suicide stories, when abruptly things began to happen...