Word: eden
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Peter J. Hill, onetime chess champion; of old age; in Worcester, Mass. Small of stature, concealed within the "chess automaton," Ajeeb, at the oldtime Eden Musée, Manhattan, Peter J. Hill used to baffle and beat chess champions of international fame. Sometimes he suffered violence in his niche. One defeated chess-woman, enraged, stuck a hatpin into the mouth of the robot, wounded the body of silent Peter J. Hill...
...propose the fig leaf as your emblem, gentlemen! Honor it as the origin of your great Merchant Tailors' Federation. When the Garden of Eden crisis occurred, Eve took the only available fig leaf, and Adam had to clothe himself in heavy skins...
Production is to start this winter in Palestine. A troupe of religiously mixed actors is to leave Manhattan in October. On schedule are 100 two-reel stories, some with dialog, some without. Some titles: "Abel, the Shepherd of Eden," "Joseph, the Vizier of Egypt," "David, the Shepherd King," "Ruth, the Widow of Moab," "Isaiah, the Poet-Prophet of Israel...
While the producers will seek veri-semblance in these films, as everyone knows, it will be impossible for them to reach exactitude. In biblical times, for example, the Eden region along the Euphrates was luxuriant and productive; canals made it fertile. Now the region is barren, where not swampy...
...ARACHNE-Eden Phillpotts-Macmillan ($2.25). Slangy conversation between classic Greeks suggests Erskine; muses conversant with the Charleston recall various recent fantasies; and the wilful woman who (almost) came to woeful end has been heard of before. She would have her profession, and she did excel at it, so the gods had to interfere and deposit her in the domesticating arms of her lover, soon husband and five times father. Bromide, he had said "No woman ever made anything more beautiful than a complete and perfect baby," but Arachne swore she preferred making the complete and perfect web of brilliant silks...