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...Monstrous!" cried Laborite John Joseph Tinker. "I have seen this thing in the British Museum and I call it useless. If scholars like such things let them buy them and leave this £40,000 to be spent for the relief of poverty and distress...
...lively, admirable and forlorn. Nan Sunderland's Desdemona was a graceful and impulsive lady, much more exciting than the demure Desdemonas who were in vogue when Central City last saw Othello. Kenneth MacKenna, whose brother. Scene Designer Jo Mielziner, was in the audience, made lago a villain of monstrous subtlety and venom. The Jones' sets, sparkling with Venetian color, were amazingly well handled throughout a one-intermission performance on a stage equipped only with a hand curtain. An audience of 750 which included Cinemagnate Jesse Lasky, Producer Max Gordon. Mr. & Mrs. Alan Campbell (Dorothy Parker), cheered itself hoarse...
...feet on the ground and his guard up. Baer took to walking in with his hands down, laughing at friends in ringside seats, chatting in the clinches. In the tenth round, Baer stopped his clowning and started to floor the champion some more. When Carnera had twice hoisted his monstrous frame to its shaky feet Referee Donovan saw that he was dazed and stepped between the men. Before he could stop the fight, the round was over...
Jenny Hanivers are made from the dried carcasses of small rays and skates. In natural state the underside of a ray's head slightly resembles a monstrous human face with nostrils that seem to be eyes and a wide, toothed mouth. The human effect is heightened when beads are inserted in the nostrils and the tissue artfully mutilated. The pectoral fins can be cut away from the head and moulded into a headdress resembling a bishop's mitre. The ventral fins can be distorted to resemble feet. Neither Dr. Gudger nor an Australian colleague investigating the same subject...
...squeamish, but they still pay good money to circus sideshows to see grown men and women whose under-functioning pituitary glands have made midgets. For those who cannot or will not attend such freak shows, Authors Bodin & Hershey have written a book that answers all conceivable questions about these monstrous mites. Midgets are correctly proportioned miniature copies of adults, usually between three and four feet tall, though some (notably the one who was photographed on J. P. Morgan's lap during a Senate investigation last year) are as tiny as 1 ft. 9 in. Midgets bitterly resent being miscalled...