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...that was launched at the Loeb main stage last week. Director Evangeline Morphos takes care of that early in the first act when, in a neat libidinization of the bloodless original stage directions, she contrives that our heroine, Raina Petkoff, must sit on Bluntschli's revolver after the fugitive Servian captain has clambered through her window and taken refuge in her boudoir. Hoo-ha! What's more, H. Rodney Clark's Bluntschli is such a card, and Anne K. Ames's Raina such a flighty creature, that the Shavian prospect of sincere and kindly intercourse never dares rear its gentle...
Experts believed that the world's loss would not be too great. The finds mostly corroborated evidence unearthed at other sites. Most significant discovery: remnants of the Servian wall, built in 387 B.C., which gave new clues to the urban layout of early Rome. Most interesting discovery: extensive graffiti (scurrilous wall scribblings) in the brothels-some in parody of Virgil and Horace, some in Greek. Said one delighted archeologist: the "richest collection" of classic wall pornography ever. The archeologists buried most of the collection again, under lock...
...Harvard collection at the Widener Room now includes works of Kipling in the following 22 languages: Bohemian, Croatian, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Servian, Spanish, Swedish, Ukrapian, Yiddish...
...time of the Turco-Russian War, the Post appeared to be stealing News despatches. The News printed a despatch concerning a riot in Servia and in the despatch were some Servian words. The Post printed it and the next day the News published a translation: "The McMullens' (publishers of the Post) will steal this sure." Within a couple of years Lawson was able to buy out the Post. In 1881 he founded The Morning News, later called The Chicago Record, later merged into the Record-Herald and finally sold to Hearst to become The Herald and Examiner...
Much later on when Servia had become the pet of the British public, he sat next to Lord Birkenhead at a public dinner, and was mischievously asked. What about that Servian poster of yours? I expect you're sorry by this time that you sent...