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...admitted to the dining hall and the failure of the electricity were undoubtedly unforeseen mishaps which will not reoccur. Nevertheless there still remained the spectacle of a group of performers, making a stage entrance in their dinner jackets, eating, it seemed, almost as a lesson in manners to the herd seated down in the pit, and then making an exit which gave the signal to the 250-odd undergraduates that the show was ended, that they could leave the room...
...tsetse fly, carrier of sleeping sickness, chiefly attacks antelope and zebra. Since domestic cattle run loose in South Africa, they come in contact with wild animals, are in turn infected. Natives seeing a wild herd fire indiscriminately, shoot many healthy animals. Last year 20,000 zebras, kudu, buffalo, inyala, gazelle, red hartebeest were killed. Only one small herd of the red hartebeest exists today in Zululand. Another victim of native cattlemen is the rare white rhinoceros. Because there are only 47 of these animals left in British East Africa, the government has forbidden the killing of them there. A discovery...
Sued. Zane Grey, prolific author of western novels; for $500,000; by Charles A. Maddux, oldtime frontiersman (no kin of President John L. Maddux of T. A. T.Maddux Air Lines). Charge: that much of Grey's The Thundering Herd (1925) was pirated from The Border and the Buffalo (1907) by John R. Cook, whose widow left rights to Maddux...
CHANCES-A. Hamilton Gibbs-Little, Brown ($2.50). Tom and Jack Ingleside, English adolescents, fitted into French College de St. Malo "like two young zebras introduced into a herd of reindeer." When they learned to say "mer-r-r-de" properly they were grudgingly accepted as decent sorts by the school bullies Lapostolle, Boutet, Verner, Cochois. Close as two fingers were the brothers; through school in France and Germany; through Oxford; through their London apprenticeship (Tom-law; Jack-engineering) until they met lovely artist Molly Prescott. To her, Tom became engaged. Then the War broke. Under fire Tom discovered Molly...
...mystery pervades the book. Like many thoughtful travelers through dead and still incompletely under stood civilizations, Princess Bibesco feels that Egypt's statues know more than they will tell." Egypt is not of interest except to a few devoted amateurs. Her thoughts have remained inaccessible, incommunicable to the herd (as are our own). . . . He who has never pursued the key to the secret of life, be it only in dreams, will never draw near the real Egypt." In one of her last entries, Traveler Bibesco's European wit reasserts itself: "Since I have left Egypt, I keep rubbing...