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Hearst's Chicago Herold-American made the most of this opportunity to catch the "torturers" redhanded. Its headlines: FLAUNT PET TORTURE AT DOG SHOW! VISITORS SICKEN AT CRUEL SIGHT. A picture of a dog named Fluffy, which had a tube connecting its stomach to a pouch collecting gastric juices, was captioned: "In helpless torment, deprived of even the relief of barking a protest, Fluffy can only gasp in grip of [the University of Chicago's] Dr. N. R. Brewer." Another picture on the same page showed a dog on which a prostate operation had been performed. The Hearst...
...held "after a brief transitional government." But he gave no assurance that Peru would continue the experiment in democratic government begun under Bustamante. (Said Bustamante in his farewell: "Democracy is like the sun; its eclipses are never permanent.") "Party politics," cried Odria, "poison the hearts of the people and sicken their minds." The military junta he had set up would deal severely with "outrages . . . perpetrated in the name of democracy and freedom." That pointed to ruthless prosecution of the jailed APRA leaders and a redoubled hunt for those still at large, notably Aprista Chief Haya de la Torre...
Perhaps the screen-theater has finally discovered, as the legitimate theater did a century ago, that audiences eventually sicken of the modern romance and prefer something a bit more tangible and certainly more useful...
...Cats Join In is a jukebox setting of Benny Goodman's record, in which orgiastic hepcats and bobby-soxers, mad on chocolate malteds, tear all over the place, paced and sustained by the sketching of a deft, rapid pencil. It will satisfy the young and the benign, sicken those who suspect "healthy" tributes to button-eyed innocence...
Mielziner employs only two assistants, shies away from the mass production possible to a highly sought-after designer. "I could enlarge my office," he once said, "hire 50 men, and become a millionaire, but I'd simply sicken myself with grouse and good port, and die of shame." Compared to most theater emoluments, designers' fees, which must cover designers' expenses, are not imposing. Mielziner's $3,500 for Dream Girl is about tops for a nonmusical; his $5,000 for Carousel, tops for a musical; the $30,000 that Mielziner grosses in a big year, tops...