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...more than 600 specimens which Collector James Johnson Sweeney assembled last week, critics picked three as particularly noteworthy 1) Bieri, a stolid engaging head of a young girl from French Gabun, with long formalized curls; 2) a witch doctor's Konde figure, dumpy, menacing and studded with nails representing curses against an enemy; 3) a squatting Venus, also from French Gabun. From Dahomey came one of the largest exhibits, the iron war god in the lobby, nearly life-size and wearing a strange spiked hat and a garment like a pleated nightshirt. His raised left arm looked...
Lady Astor continued to be comforted by the stolid Toryism of the House of Chamberlain, mere second-generation though it is. Sir Austen Chamberlain, he of the affrighting icy monocle, grows dim; but even without a monocle his brother Mr. Neville Chamberlain, Chancellor of the Exchequer, remains perhaps the world's most formidable Tory. Last week Mr. Chamberlain addressed the House of Commons, and Labor in particular, with such withering conservative rebuke that even when he referred to Britain's 2,000,000 unemployed," no M. P. ventured the impertinence of interrupting to observe that Government...
...women, excitement. Deeply infatuated with him was the beautiful Baroness Benita von Berg, a blonde whose first husband was Richard von Falkenhayn, son of the late great General von Falkenhayn. Berlin society knew that it was to escape the influence of Polish Baron Sosnowski that beauteous, divorced Benita married stolid Baron von Berg. Curiously, all four remained friendly, all went to the same parties. Sosnowski's parties were enough to set Berlin gossips hissing like snakes. People not invited insisted that there were buckets of champagne, sexual orgies...
...fiddler Father Kubelik appeared, at 54, as a stolid, hard worker, absorbed by his finger technique and a bow that moved woodenly. Son Raffael seemed to have more of the old Kubelik flare. His arms shot forth like serpents. His hair was so long and rebellious that he had to stop now and then to tuck it behind his ears. A concerto written by Father Kubelik was the climax of their performance. But no hearts fluttered...
...Japanese justice in Port Arthur last week stood four stolid Germans and a Swiss, thieves, murderers and pirates all. Not since the desperate days of Chinese opium smuggling by 19th Century white cutthroats has the Orient seen Occidentals charged with such a combination of atrocious crimes. To assure them a fair trial, Mayor Yoneoka of Port Arthur, famed Japanese barrister, was assigned to their defense...