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Awed spectators who peered about to glimpse the "Throne" were startled by the simple, even frail construction of the chair. Simple, but not without dignity, for it rested on the topmost of three octagonal pedestals, surrounded by an octagonal pavilion with draw curtains, this surmounted by a great golden Phoenix with wings spread. Pavilion and chair rested on a great square pedestal, the whole being called the Takamikura. Enclosing the Takamikura with the spaciousness of an airplane hangar rose the mighty Shishinden or Temple of Enthronement. Beneath the eaves of its high thatched roof, the Shishinden was open along...
Correspondents who sought out the new President found the same slender, abstemious, almost frail Chiang Kai-shek of old. As Marshal and Generalissimo of all the Nationalist Armies his uniform was always that of a private, completely unadorned. Last week as President of the Government he received callers in austerest garb, after doffing his plain, dark, silken robe of office. Coldly, firmly...
...Bronx Zoo, New York, vandals last week committed wanton depredations upon the caged beasts there. They shot the only Arabian Dorcas gazelle in captivity, a frail and beautiful animal. They threw stones at the only shoebill heron in the U. S. until they smashed its bill so badly that it could not eat and could scarcely breathe. They threw more stones at the sea lion until they blinded one of its eyes. Weirdest of the crimes was the dark attempt of a man to pull a cobra from its glass case by means of a cane and to carry...
There are plenty of flaws in the construction and direction of Goin' Home-enough, perhaps, to prevent its being the success that its vigor and perception deserve. It seems unfortunate, though it is a minor point, that a black rascal should be required to use so frail an expletive as "he can kiss my foot." Richard Hale, in blackface, does a sympathetic though slightly sing-song interpretation of Israel Dubois...
Papua (New Guinea), largest island of the archipelago that lies just north of Australia, like scattered shards of a frail continent, is the home of cannibals, gibbons, serpents and birds of paradise. To get some of those birds, and on his way to photograph other jungle life, for the New York Zoological Park, Curator Lee S. Crandall left Manhattan last week. At Port Moresby, Papua, he will make up his field expedition of habitants and natives. Particular end of his quest is the "Rudolf," largest and most gorgeous bird of paradise. When it is not drifting between twilit trees...