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...Addis Ababa warrior chiefs of the Noble Savage type bitterly and contemptuously complain, "Our Emperor is a businessman!" They should thank Ethiopia's stars. The astounding marvel is that Africa's unique Museum of Peoples has produced a businessman-with high-pressure publicity, compelling sales talk, the morals of a patent medicine advertisement, a grasp of both savage and diplomatic mentality, and finally with plenty of what Hollywood calls IT. The Emperor was "too smart" only once in 1935, when he tried by granting the Rickett Concession to Standard Oil to embroil the U. S. directly in Ethiopia...
Critics were so excited to hear a really great voice that everything Flagstad did was greeted with praise, some of it so indiscriminate that readers were led to believe that the greatest Wagnerian of all time had suddenly popped from the blue. Yet some laymen could marvel at her voice, at her poise, at her endurance and still wish at times that she possessed more fire, a more heroic conception of Wagner's great heroines. To some she seems curiously impersonal, a cold Northern light withal her great talent...
Born in Aurora. Ill., in 1864, Vanderlip worked on his father's farm, earned his first $12 by caring for 36 calves one summer, was given one to sell. "I marvel today the way I spent that money . . . a six years' subscription to the New York Weekly Tribune with a premium of Webster's unabridged dictionary." Upon his father's death, he went to work in a machine shop, spent long hours reading, studied German, taught his shopmates algebra. In addition, he took a correspondence course in shorthand. At 21 he became city editor...
...future. Suggested by the speech in which Stanley Baldwin declared that an alliance between the U. S. and Britain would be a sanction no power on earth would dare to face (TIME, June 17), it proposes an intercontinental subway line and shows the difficulties involved in engineering such a marvel. The workers are hampered by a submarine volcano, the machinations of an armament tycoon and domestic difficulties that beset the chief engineer (Richard Dix). His wife (Madge Evans) thinks he is in love with a U. S. millionaire's daughter (Helen Vinson) and deserts him, a mishap for which...
After the War, when the famed "Masked Marvel" (Mort Henderson) was defeated by Strangler Lewis, wrestling became comparatively unprofitable. Promoter Curley restored the sport to favor in 1929 by the simple device of having his performers shriek, groan, wave their arms, grimace and plunge out of the ring, instead of squirming calmly on the floor as is the practice of wrestlers who are solely occupied with winning...