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...calling itself "young," Evelyn Waugh is becoming to the present. Less serious than Huxley but more religious (he has lately become a Roman Catholic), more scandalously funny but less satirical, he writes less like an insulated Englishman than like a French cosmopolite. Author Waugh recently traveled to Abyssinia, to Ras Tafari's coronation, wrote a disappointingly half-serious book about it (They Were Still Dancing, TIME, Dec. 14). In Black Mischief he returns to the subject of Negro majesty, does it up black & blue in true Waugh style...
...chambermaid, sin-among-undergraduates, bloody-murder type of article so frequently found in The American Weekly. And its "scientific" articles, favorites of all Sunday editors, were somewhat less imaginative. Features of the first issue: a description of the aborigines of Australia & New Zealand; the child temple-dancers of Bali; Ras Tafari's monogamy; a big-game hunting article, suggesting that African lions are really tame; a summary of now familiar facts about Siam's royalty. The American Weekly of the same date offered: "If the Earth Becomes Uninhabitable-Where Shall We Go?," with brilliant illustrations; "Mystery of American...
President Hoover's autographed photograph was on its way last week through the Red Sea to Abyssinia as his coronation present to Ras Tafari, "King of Kings." Germany's President von Hindenburg also sent a signed picture of himself, together with 500 bottles of fine Rhine wine...
...President Hoover last week named Herman Murray Jacoby, wealthy German-born Manhattan bond broker, to represent him as a special ambassador next November when Ras Taffari. Regent of Ethiopia, becomes H. I. M. Haile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia. To Addis Ababa, remote Abyssinian capital, for the African coronation Mr. Jacoby will take a full diplomatic staff, including Brig. General William Wright Harts and Charles Lee Cooke, the State Department's ceremonial officer. One reason why the U. S. should participate so elaborately in an Abyssinian ceremony: J. G. White Engineering Corp. of New York has a large contract with Ras...
Died. Empress Zauditu (Judith) of Abyssinia, 54, "direct descendant of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba"; at Addis Ababa, Abyssinia; of "shock" on hearing that her husband, Ras Gugas Wali, had been killed in battle near Zebit...