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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...uses to which French Guiana has been put. In the penal settlements along the coast and on the famed lies du Salut, ("Devil's Island") between eight and nine thousand of the most hardened French criminals are left to rot; in fertile and promising French Guiana proper are less than 45,000 sleazy colonists and appallingly diseased natives...
...Manhattan, last week, a town jester named Peter Arno held his first art exhibit. Artist Arno is a social satirist. Frothier, less pungent than such satirists as Beerbohm and Bateman, he nevertheless makes sprightly comments on violations of taste and decorum. He lies in wait for those moments when civilized people burst through their shimmering camouflage of gentlity and blatantly expose rage, sex, silliness...
...deadly, will never again be fought with shot & shell. It can't be, for it is too much cheaper to destroy life wholesale with this new gas. It may be manufactured at the rate of thousands of tons a day and it costs much less than powder & cannon, yet it will destroy armies more thoroughly, more effectively, and more cheaply...
...failure, tottered and crumpled all over the stage and Janos, the forester, escaped through it, back to his wife who was waiting dinner for him. Interesting and incredible, the play was chiefly remarkable for the stage devices it contained; stage devices, since the invention of the cinema, are less potent than they used to be to evoke illusions and it was in displaying his unique skill in their construction that Producer Belasco really sang his swan song...
...skill in making actors out of individuals like Jack Dempsey or even Lenore Ulric is a less rare but more valuable one. When he watched Lenore Ulric display her manikinetic tricks to Satan's jury, Producer Belasco must have smiled to himself, for it was he, not "Dr. Magister," who taught her how to do them. A little girl from Minnesota who had played in stock in Milwaukee, she came to Manhattan and played in The Mark of the Beast. After that, Belasco got her and has had her ever since. Tiger Rose, in 1917, made her very famous...