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Mounted on a prancing ass, and with an embroidered velvet chieftain's robe worn like a chasuble over his Italian army uniform, bug-eyed Haile Selassie Gugsa, traitorous son-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie, rode in triumph last week into his old capital of Makale. Behind him an Italian officer held high the Italian flag that had been hauled down from the same Ethiopian village in 1896. Behind them both marched a carefully chosen column of Ras Gugsa's own tribesmen, tall fezzed Askaris from Eritrea, and a regiment of Italian Bersaglieri, cock feathers fluttering from their...
...these times the future is more difficult than ever to scrutinize. But perhaps if the Crimson be allowed to discard the businessman's suit of the commentator and to don the mystic robe of the seer, it can anticipate at least one important issue that must eventually be considered: that of the Teachers' Union as a branch of the American Federation of Labor...
...student in Paris where he made two lifelong friends. Thomas Benton and Morgan Russell. In 1913 he, with Artist Russell, invented a new art movement called "Synchromism" which was apparently another effort to create illusion through the use of color alone. Same year, wearing a long white robe, sandals, a flowing beard and a jade necklace, he held his first Synchromist exhibition in Munich. Artist Wright is still a Synchromist but does not talk about it much. At present he is more interested in a new process of color photography which he calls "Synchrome...
...showing the Emperor of Japan walking off with the Nobel Peace Prize, Vanity Fair also showed J. P. Morgan making a stump speech against Capitalism, Admiral Byrd wintering in tropical Tahiti, William Randolph Hearst as Ambassador to Soviet Russia and Huey Long in a friar's robe entering a monastery. To crack this page of mirth wide open it was captioned "NOT ON YOUR TINTYPE. Five highly unlikely historical situations by one who is sick of the same old headlines...
From the Hollywood Bowl last week many an auditor glanced up at a hill 1,000 ft. away where, once an evening, a spot light picked out a man in a flowing robe stumbling along with a cross. In an out door theatre beneath the hill was being performed the Pilgrimage Play, a 15-year-old event in California. Compiled by the late Christine Wetherill Stevenson, a rich Bible student who left money to assure its performance, the Pilgrimage Play presents the entire life of Christ. The actors, like Ian Maclaren who has been Christ for six years, are professionals...