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...TIME. We have not yet forgotten how Feld Marshal von Machensen, et al, broke their pledged word, as evinced by solemn treaty, and invaded Belgium without any right except that of might. If their word was of no value in 1914 what reason have we to believe that the leopard has changed his spots? The same stricture applies to the occupant of Doom in an even stronger sense...
Sign of the Leopard. "I cannot disturb Mr. Wallace-he has just started a new play." With these words, the secretary of Edgar Wallace endeavored to discourage a telephonic caller who immediately replied, "Very well-I will hold the wire until he finishes it." Such is the reputation for alacrity in composition of the playwright-novelist-journalist who keeps London and England in a perpetual state of horror at his inventions. In the U. S., his horrid fancies occasion less alarm. In this, what with switching backward and forward, after the fashion cf the cinema, in time sequence, and supplying...
...Buganda only the Kabaka himself may step upon a leopard skin, symbol of Royalty. But last week the Kabaka, clad in robes of blue and gold, led Edward of Wales to a throne chair set up beside his own and resting upon leopard skins...
...Leopard Lady. She trains the big cats. He is a first mate. Together they dissolve the mystery of an Austrian circus driven somewhat mad by a series of murders, a Cossack rider, and his evil ape. His repertory of crimes is violent, grotesque, allowing Actress Jacqueline Logan, the Leopard Lady, to dress in siren skirts, to act hysterically in a picture which is otherwise emotionally excellent...
After mournful trumpetings of the "Last Post," the formal speeches of gift and receipt were made and the 48th Highlanders of Canada, in their feathered bonnets, red doublets, tartan kilts and leopard skins, wailed on their bagpipes their famed "Lament," which begins: "Flowers of the forest are wede...