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Cheesecake Did It. Bathing beauties did it. Big, beautiful eyes and slim, wonderful legs did it. The supreme Empress of Cheesecake, the very Marlene Dietrich herself, last week was fittingly crowned by the Treasury as the champion bond seller of all. On three cross-country trips she upped the pulses and unsnapped the purses of thousands of U.S. males. At Cleveland's General Electric plant, when Worker Edward LaCuoco signed away 10% of his pay for the duration, Miss Dietrich rewarded him with a long cine-kiss (see cut). Mr. LaCuoco said it was worth...
Josephus and the Emperor is sultry with wars, murders, double & triple- intrigues, early Christians, rape, weird religious rites, living burials and the intangible mood of desperation that pervaded late Roman society. There are memorable pictures of candidly dissolute Empress Lucia, who goes in for young intellectuals; of Norbanus, head of the secret police, who murders Domitian just before Domitian gets around to murdering him. There is Domitian himself, worrying about his place in history; tossing doles to the masses when he feels his popularity waning; plotting how to destroy the last liberties of the Senate. Against these monstrous Romans...
...made the acquaintance of some San Francisco Chinese who set his imagination to sparking on the coming Chinese Revolution. Knowing that he would never be accepted by the U.S. Army, he went to China, offered his services to Premier Kong Yu Wei, who was secretly plotting against the Dowager Empress...
Kong's plot was discovered and the Empress put a price of $10,000 on Lea's head. He made his way to Hong Kong, there met the great Sun Yat Sen, who later made Lea his chief military adviser with the rank of general. Lea went with Dr. Sun into exile in Japan. Then he went back to San Francisco and, after years of travel and study, wrote The Valor of Ignorance...
Three Murders. The murder of Alexander is only the first sinister chord struck in this intensely symphonic book. First of Author West's youthful memories was the assassination of the Empress Elizabeth by the anarchist Luccheni in 1898. "He was an Italian born in Paris of parents forced to emigrate by their poverty and trodden down into an alien criminal class: that is to say, he belonged to an urban population . . . which wandered often workless and always traditionless, without power to control its destiny. It was indeed most appropriate that he should register his discontent by killing Elizabeth...