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...Carl Milles created his huge Orpheus fountain which many of his admirers consider the greatest of his great work.* Milles modeled an Orpheus descending from Heaven, his lyre resting on his left shoulder, his right hand plucking its invisible strings. Directly beneath Orpheus a stylized Cerberus is about to doze off into careless sleep. Around the rim of the fountain nude figures are arrested in various postures by the strains of Orpheus' music. A very young girl in her rapture drops a flower. More mature is a girl who lifts her hands in surprise, turns her head to hear...
...example of old-style cinemelodrama, Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back is an entertaining Hollywood elaboration, replete with London fogs, funny policemen, disgruntled Scotland Yard inspectors. Good shot: Hassan and Singh rearing their ugly heads behind the sofa on which Lola Fields has fallen into an unwary doze...
...left Berlin two weeks ago, supposedly to doze out the summer at his big manor house in East Prussia, but suddenly last week German statesmen were startled to feel again the enormous weight in high politics of HINDENBURG...
...cockpit of the Bellanca, named Santa Lucia, he rigged an overhead water tank, a siren and a time clock. When the General feels drowsy he will set his controls, set the clock for ten minutes and doze off. At ten minutes the siren will howl, the tank will squirt cold water in the General's face. Siren and water spout are also adjusted to shriek and squirt if the plane should veer from her course, droop from her altitude. Said General de Pinedo...
Last week the censored newspapers' only reproaches spoke from great white spaces. Accused of suppressing two, Terra replied that troops had merely shut off their electrical power, stopping the presses. Montevideo businessmen were satisfied. But inland the estancia owners and peons awoke from their doze, waited in vain for news from Montevideo. They picked up an occasional scanty radio report from the Argentine, spread rumor and uneasiness by word of mouth. Observers agreed that the Constitution from which all power had leaked last week was probably unrefillable. What the new Constitution would be depended on how well Dictator Terra...