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...Back from Santiago de los Caballeros came the mud-spattered runabout coupe, and seated beside Courier Cabot was "Supreme Chief" Urena. On his head, a slouch hat, from the pocket of his flannel shirt protruded a fountain pen, from his shoulder hung a broad-bladed sword, its handle ivory-inlaid. U. S. Minister Curtis ran over from his legation. Ensued a weighty conference at the Presidential mansion...
...made many a film about wild places. Their most famed was Simba, a lion story that lost some interest because of its specialization. Now the Johnsons point their telescopic lenses at a variety of things. They start in the Solomon Islands, watching the cowardly headhunters launching a war-canoe inlaid with mother-of-pearl. In the New Hebrides a tribe is burying some old men alive; in the Big Numbers Territory some monkey men with prehensile feet peer wildly out of the trees. The Johnsons gave a movie show of Charlie Chaplin for King Nagapate's cannibals...
...manor. He hid in the dark for fun and was murdered. Various of the 13 glamorous guests had ample motive for the crime. King had injured practically all of them, with his piratical lust for women and money. Authoress Hart, who wrote The Bellamy Trial, famed smash hit, has inlaid her mystery with a filigree of wit and romance, confined the action to one night, eliminated detectives. The result is incredibly novel, exciting...
There are eight bedrooms, four baths, a big circular living room, a study. Oak logs faced with birch bark make the outer walls. Inside are oriental rugs, French wicker furniture, maple piano (inlaid with gold), Italian oak panelling, brass bedsteads...
Last week Archbishop John J. Dunn, of the Catholic diocese of New York, journeyed to Staten Island to attend special services, returned to his Manhattan home, discovered that from his automobile had been lost a black valise containing cassock, robes, crucifix. The Archbishop was distraught, for the crucifix (inlaid with four two-carat diamonds and many a sapphire) bore the instriptions: "Worn by Cardinal Farley as auxiliary Bishop of New York;" "Presented by His Eminence Patrick Cardinal Hayes to the Right Rev. John J. Dunn...