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...months ago to sun himself with "the only Russians who smile" on both of them. "Mixed bathing'' (about the nudity of which Will Rogers is perfectly correct) consists of a segregation of males on one side and of females on the other side of a substantial chinkless, eight-foot board fence. This stops at the water's edge (similar French barricades do not). Such is the force of custom (not costume), however, that there is no commingling even in the water...
...premiere of this vigorous, ethical tale 19 years ago. Composer Puccini and Author Belasco were both present. Puccini was awarded an eight-foot wreath, Belasco was "divinely happy." Yet he declared he was happier last week. Jeritza and he took a dozen bows together. He kissed her hand. She kissed his cheek. The other players did not count. As Forty-Niners they were patently masquerading. Tenor Giovanni Martinelli (Dick Johnson) had suffered and sobbed in the best Italian manner. Baritone Lawrence Tibbett (Jack Rance) was more credible, but looked funny in an Abraham Lincoln makeup. It was Jeritza who raised...
...miles nearer Salt Lake City than via the Union Pacific, 174 miles nearer than via Pueblo on the present Denver & Rio Grande Western route; it will carry motorists under the Divide, on flatcars the year round; carry oil, power and water lines through the Divide in a special eight-foot bore parallel...
...they died, after several months' captivity in Bronx Zoo, unable to survive in the chill climate and on a cage diet. Last week curators of the American Museum of Natural History announced that the dead dragons were nearly ready for exhibition in the new Hall of Dinosaurs. Their eight-foot corpses were mounted, one in the act of strangling a wild boar, the other "snarling defiance at civilization." Beneath their showcase will be a placard explaining again that they were varanus komodensis, giant monitor lizards, descendants of Mesozoic dinosaurs, nocturnal, rapaciously carnivorous, fleet of foot, deaf, strong enough...
Eastman. At the age of 72, George ("Kodak") Eastman, of Rochester, N. Y., has been spending the summer photographing and shooting big game in Kenya, Tanganyika and the Belgian Congo. Near Nairobi natives chaired him on their shiny shoulders for slaying an eight-foot lion with two express bullets. Last fortnight came a letter from Explorer Carl E. Akeley, with the Eastman party and in charge of collections for the African Hall of the American Museum of Natural History, saying that the Kenya veld, once a hunter's paradise, is now stripped of fauna. "The unhappy remnant...