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Have you ever snooped with a camera? Have you ever lain in wait for a famous fellow to make a fool of himself? Have you ever sneaked away with your camera under your coat felling sure that you have taken the one picture in millions that shows a true expression? Unusual pictures will be more and more in demand in the future, and the college is rich ground where they wait for an ogle-eyed photographer to find them...
...post-election Rooseveltian "message to the public" called The Election-An Interpretation. This year Publisher Macfadden, who no longer approves of Contributor Roosevelt's policies, came forward in his own person as a Republican possibility, announced with no false modesty that, if elected, he would annul "fool laws," put down "racketeers." Before the Cleveland Convention in June, Candidate Macfadden was briefly touted by friends, including Novelist Thomas Dixon. Depth of Mr. Macfadden's political thinking is indicated by his belief that Russia and Japan are planning early attacks...
...Quirinal Palace last week was called Sir Aldo Castellani, the great Anglo-Italian physician whose work as Sanitary High Commissioner for East Africa made Italians able to fool pessimists who said their army could never live and conquer amid the heat and pullulating pestilences of Ethiopia. Sir "Aldo's title of British knighthood was superseded as His Majesty conferred on him the hereditary Italian title Count of Chisimaio...
...before a state reception begins. Although the Queen, in manner, speech and display of her girlish charms, has a good deal in common with less elevated wenches, Ben is straightway transported by his love to the isles of enchantment. At a house party with her he makes a romantic fool of himself before her worldly companions, decides to fake suicide, swims...
Thereupon The Moon's No Fool leaves its practical moorings as Ben experiences nightmarish visions where friends are all enemies; where the Queen is successively a prostitute, a torch-singer, a dancing partner, a captive; where his fashionable companions turn into policemen and thugs who are chasing him everywhere; where his beloved changes her being whenever he tries to embrace her. Thereupon, too, The Moon's No Fool takes on its elusive moral tone as Author Matthews suggests the evil consequences and addled wits that follow from self-deception and acceptance of worldly standards. Ben is saved from...