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SATAN CAME TO EDEN-Dore Strauch-Harper...
...Dore Strauch, a Berliner of advanced ideas unhappily married to a conservative husband, fell in love with a Berlin doctor, also married, also unconventional. Dr. Ritter's dream was to get away from it all, live a Rousseauistic life on an uninhabited island. They broke the news to their respective mates (whom they unsuccessfully tried to bring together, in compensation), collected their gear and set off for Floreana. According to Dore Strauch. it is not true that they had all their teeth pulled before they left.* Dr. Ritter had had his out some time before, and for a different...
...radioed report attracted a storm of publicity to their hideout; next came copycatting settlers; then the journalists. One family came with an expectant mother, because they knew Dr. Ritter would be able to help her confinement. Most of the "settlers" were only visitors, but one fine day, when Dore and Dr. Ritter had been three years on Floreana. Satan herself arrived in their homespun Eden. She came in the guise of a German baroness of dubious antecedents, uncertain age and still more ambiguous behavior. With her she brought several devoted men-followers. The Baroness soon had them...
...situation grew more tense. Dore felt the outcome would be grisly. Principal cause for alarm was the jealousy between Lorenz, cast-off lover of the Baroness, and Philippson. the present incumbent. Sure enough, one day Dore heard a scream. Next time she saw Lorenz he told a cock-&-bull tale of the Baroness and Philippson's hurried departure from the island. Neither of them was seen again. Dore was sure Lorenz had murdered them, burnt their bodies. Then Lorenz, in a hurry to get away, went off in a small boat with a Norwegian fisherman. Their sun-shriveled corpses...
Youngsters who knew the late Winsor Zenic McCay at all remember him for his elaborate editorial cartoons in Sunday Hearstpapers. "Cartoons" they were in subject only. In workmanship, detail, and fantasy they suggested to some critics the exciting drawings of Gustave Dore. On such a Brisbanal theme as the triumph of Knowledge over Prejudice, Artist McCay could produce a startling half-page conception of titanic struggle...