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Dressed as a plain surveyor, bespattered with muddy water, a stranger registered in the Old Gilcher House, Danville, Ky., and was assigned to an attic bedroom with a dormer window, a shuck-mattress bed and tallow-dip candle, in the late '60s. The unknown guest demanded a decent room for the night, which infuriated the clerk who sized up the stranger and exclaimed: "That room is plenty good for the looks of you." Instantly the infuriated "surveyor" wrote across the page of the hotel register: "Surveyors: Locate the road just far enough away from Danville so its citizens...
...building. The atmosphere was one of archaic simplicity and studied leisure. The visitor was entertained by President Eliot,* a tall, distinguished-looking elderly man in a toga, who had inherited his position from his grandfather. There was a large open fire in the room, which was lit by tallow candles which two undergraduates continually snuffed...
Brave men and great fighters are the followers of Islam, but their religious sensibilities are tender as an aching tooth. Because the British War Office tried to get them to bite paper cartridges tactlessly greased with pork tallow 76 years ago, Moslem sepoys fought the great Indian Mutiny. Because a Moslem fanatic proclaimed himself a redeemer or Mahdi in Egypt 40 years ago, thousands of Egyptians rebelled, left the bland head of Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon stuck on a spike at the gates of Khartoum. Last week because a Swiss headmistress hoisted the skirts and paddled the bottom of naughty...
...finish. Otherwise its garish ramifications should be pleasantly exciting. It shows how a sculptor of wax statues (Lionel Atwill), apparently driven insane when his effigies go up in smoke, decides to reproduce them by the highly unlikely process of stealing suitable bodies from the morgue and embalming them in tallow. When a live person suits the purposes of the waxworker, he has no hesitation about resorting to murder. The picture hints rather broadly that the corpse of Justice Joseph Force Crater (who disappeared in Manhattan in 1930) is now a rouged mummy in an exhibition. Just when you expect...
...create foreign trade barriers, it pointed out, the same type of thing was unthinkable within a nation. The New York Times agreed thatthe logical conclusion would come "when we gave up buying & selling altogether and went in for spinning our own wool on Park Avenue and rendering our own tallow candles on Michigan Boulevard." But said the Times: "Can it be that Buy-Illinois and Buy-Kentucky crusades are themselves the logical result of Buy-American movements, such as the weekly publication referred to Saturday Evening Post] has perhaps heard...