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...decoration as well as illustration, the French cuts are perhaps the best in the sixteenth century. Decorative borders frequently adorn the page and cuts and text unite to form a more complete whole than in other countries, due perhaps to the influence of Geoffrey Tory. A large number of books shown are French. Among the most interesting may be mentioned "Entree ... Henri II ... en la ville ... de Paris", Paris, 1549, containing a fine equestrian portrait by Jean Goujon; Aesop, "Les Fables", Paris, 1542, a unique first edition; Homer, Les Dix Premiers Livres de I'lliade", Paris, 1545; Ovid, La Metamorphose...
Collision. Olga (June Walker) pretends to be in love with a celebrated musician in order to spur the attentions of her real attachment, Dr. Gestzi (Geoffrey Kerr). Unhappily the musician is reported missing in a train wreck. So Olga feigns insanity, declares that Dr. Gestzi is her missing fiancé. Wise therapist, he humors her with a honeymoon, drugs her when she becomes unmaidenly and finally wakes up to the notion that he is in love with her himself...
...Geoffrey of Monmouth," Professor Maynadier...
...Calcutta Miss Santi Ghose and Miss Sunity Chowdhuri, convicted of fatally filling District Magistrate Charles Geoffrey Buckland Stevens full of bullets (TIME, Dec. 28), appeared in court for their sentences. In bright colored saris, with flowers in their hair, they listened unmoved as they were sentenced to transportation for life from Bengal Presidency. Said they lightly: "It is better to die than live in a horse's stable...
Murder of several Britishers in Bengal was certain from the moment that Viceroy the Earl of Willingdon issued his ordinance suppressing the right of free speech and many another right (TIME, Dec. 14).* Last week fate made that innocent and worthy bureaucrat Charles Geoffrey Buckland Stevens, District Magistrate of Comilla, the first victim of fierce Bengalese reprisal...