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...infirmary; the attack on the arsenal; the Afghans laughing at Shirley; Old Boots going to Khoda Khan. The Emperor's Candlesticks (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is as blythe a pre-War romance as the Baroness Orczy, from whose book it was adapted, could wish. Rival spies, the Polish Baron Stephan Wolensky (William Powell) and the Russian Countess Olga Mironova (Luise Rainer), are entrusted with a pair of Louis XV candlesticks to be lugged from Vienna to St. Petersburg. In the secret compartment of one candlestick the Baron hides a message to the Tsar; in the other candlestick the Countess hides...
...reptile house, calmly fondled it as it coiled about her neck. "It never occurred to me to be afraid of them," shrugged she. who as a girl visited Walter Damrosch (see p. 47) at Bar Harbor with a green snake, Emily Spinach. Impressed, said Keeper Joseph A. Stephan: "Snakes know people who understand them. Mrs. Longworth does. The snake acted as if it were in the hands of an old friend...
...catalog. These were not prepared by the Buffalo Museum's staff but by leading authorities in the U. S. on each particular field. Orientalist Arthur Upham Pope wrote on Persian bronzes, the Metropolitan's Gisela M. A. Richter covered those of Greece and Rome, Art Dealer Stephan Bourgeois wrote on modern bronzes...
EDMUND A. STEPHAN...
...foreign ventures in their lands were for purposes of political or commercial advantage. In time the U. S. colleges, independent but banded together since 1919 in the Near East College Association, were acclaimed as brilliant beacons in the Near East march toward Western enlightenment. Said the late Alumnus Stephan Panaretoff, when he was Bulgarian Minister to the U. S.: "A single graduate of Robert College in his native town or community means more by the influence he exerts than ten college graduates here in America...