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...centre of the domed room Banker Hayden beheld a great dumbbell-shaped Zeiss projection instrument like a Martian death-ray machine straight out of an early Wells novel. A packed audience of moppets and grownups murmured as 2,700 stars winked in their proper places on the dim vault overhead, as the planets glowed, as the Milky Way streamed in soft splendor. A lecturer identified stars and constellations with a flashlight beam. As the projector moved on its complex nest of gears, aeons of astronomical time flashed by. Realizing that this was no idle frivolity but a magnificent glimpse...
Black Beauty ROLL, JORDAN, ROLL-Julia Peterkin & Doris Ulmann-Ballon ($3.50). One of the very few Southern gentlefolk writing today, Julia Peterkin has a proprietary interest in the Negro, who in her books behaves according to Hoyle (Southern style). Neither lynchings nor Harlem hotspots darken her clear pages. A Martian visitor reading Authoress Peterkin would hardly guess that there was such a thing as a "Negro problem." For her and her readers the Negro is the Southern plantation darky, whom Southerners always represent as being a lovable, child-like creature, living as a happy dependent on a sympathetic white master...
...ASTONISHING ISLAND-Winifred Holtby-Macmillan ($3). Martian-visitor satire on England, by the able authoress of Mandoa, Mandoa...
Protestant+Catholics +Jews. Peering about the U. S. the Martian astronomer would have seen...
Rejoice, Rejoice! Swinging the telescope to focus upon Rome the Martian would have seen Pope Pius XI distressed by a sacrilege which had been perpetrated in the Holy City itself; but the Papal newspaper Osservatore Romano rejoicing to announce that a portion of God's work is being done even by the Bolsheviks, because they, by their infamies, have brought Protestants and Jews to kneel in prayer for a petition initiated by the Pope...