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...corner of the Manhattan offices occupied by the French Consulate is the Pierre Matisse Gallery, a showroom run by the suave young son of the great French painter, Henri Matisse. Last week this gallery had something of major importance to show to importers, passport vise seekers, messenger boys and visiting celebrities: an exhibition of drawings by Aristide Maillol whom France ranks, with Antoine Bourdelle, as one of the two greatest living sculptors...
Manchurian bandits derailed the Chang chun-Harbin train, killing twelve, injuring 47. They kidnapped an undetermined number of passengers, robbed 600. One of the passengers was Henry Hilgard Villard, son of Editor Oswald Garrison Villard (The Nation.) He escaped unhurt, with passport and money, lost only his luggage. With William Vincent Astor, Ichthyologist Charles Haskins Townsend, nine guests and several thousand kingfish and sea bass aboard, the Astor yacht Nonrmahal sailed from Manhattan for Bermuda. The fish, which are indigenous to the Atlantic Coast, were to be dumped overboard near Bermuda, to acclimate them to warm waters in hope...
...president of the American Association of Master Locksmiths. His errand was to pick open some treasure chests plucked from Davy Jones's lockerby whom he would not say, from where he could not say. His cautious employers had merely supplied him expense money and instructions to have his passport visaed for England, France and Germany. When his ship neared Europe he would receive wireless orders for debarkation. The chests he was to open might have been retrieved from the sunken Egypt from which Italian salvagers last week first announced, then denied that they had lifted $45,000 in gold...
...Cornelius Mezei, pathologist of Sea View Hospital. "You're Trotsky!" contradicted Broker Cusack, grasping Dr. Mezei firmly by the cravat When the boat docked, Brokers Donahue & Cusack turned their find over to Federal agents, who promptly released him. Said Dr. Mezei: "They wanted to see my passport. They said they were Secret Service men. I never carry a passport on the ferry...
...leaving Hollywood, Director Eisenstein. whose passport had expired, was given a ticket to Russia via Japan. He appealed to Reformer Upton Sinclair to get his passport extended, raise funds for him to make a picture in Mexico. In Mexico, he set about making a picture according to his own notions. As is his practice, he used natives instead of trained actors. He worked only on sunny days, drank beer on days when it rained? With no projection room in which to view "rushes" he used an immense amount of film-160.000 ft. The picture, not yet publicly released, is called...