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Havana settled down. Lurid stories of massacre, revolution and Negro uprisings continued to filter in to the capital from down the island. Investigating these New York Herald Tribune's Correspondent Tom Pettey took a three-day motor trip into the interior, found little evidence. Day after his return revolvers and rifles were cracking in Havana, but the shots were fired in the air. By a single blanket decree the Government of small Provisional President Carlos Manuel de Cespedes declared the Machado administration and all its acts since May 1929 unconstitutional, wiped out the constitutional reforms of 1928 by which...
...soldiers to stop them this time, a swelling mob burst into the Palace, smashing, ransacking, pillaging "I've got Machado's sheets!" screamed a negress. Other mobsters tore the mosquito netting from the President's bed. Smarter thieves stole silverware and fine porcelain. The Presidential water filter attracted one patriot who wheeled it drunkenly away. Others threw avocados and oranges at tapestries and paintings. The sidewalks outside were littered ankle-deep with debris hurled from the windows...
Each picture is, to all appearances, quite innocent and uninteresting except for the distinctive style of drawing O. Soglow has developed. Upon application of the filter, hidden lines appear which make the situation first depicted ludicrous or amusing in some...
...innovation employs a new type of color camera invented by one A. G. Hillman. It operates much like an ordinary camera-Mr. Hillman photographs an object in one instantaneous exposure through a color filter, on three separate plates. From the three prints, which register respectively red, blue & yellow, a single print in natural color is obtained. The camera is not limited to photographing colored objects in a studio, may be used by news photographers for scenes of action in natural color...
...even college men regarding the affairs of Europe. Any measure is valuable that will make Americans realize that the problems of living have been worked out just as creditably across the Atlantic as here. Though only a few can benefit directly from the scholarship, broadening ideas are sure to filter back to the stay-at-homes...