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...Rome he managed to win an art competition prize, to climb the dome of St. Peter's and carve his initials higher than any previous vandal. He remained there two years or less; an alert guard caught him climbing a nunnery wall and he returned to Saragossa where he was promptly given a commission to decorate a church...
...film, which describes the adventures of a rich French traveler in Morocco, has been adapted from one of the most famous novels of the French modern school. Vandal-Delac, one of the best producers in Europe, who also directed "Le Bal" which the Committee presented last month, has taken charge of the production. The plot hinges about the efforts of an unscrupulous blackmailer to intimidate a wealthy young Frenchman into giving him a large sum of money. The photography is particularly good, every scene having been filmed in Morocco. The local color of the country is effectively brought...
...season, the French Talking Films Committee will present "Le Bal," by Ireno Nemirovaki tomorrow and Wednesday at 2.30, 5.15, and 8.30 o'clock in the Institute of Geographical Exploration. The picture, which had its formal premiere in New York City on Tuesday, September 27, was produced by Marcel Vandal...
Their parents paid for the damage and incidental expenses: $2,000. Headmaster Peabody said he would push prosecution no further. But Harvard authorities planned to deal with the vandals, probably expel them. Said Vandal Merriman: "It is no use to say I am sorry. Sorry is not the word. Nothing can express it." Said Vandal Jenkins: "We were drunk at the time and as we became drunker we lost all sense of the seriousness of the things we were doing. I was not actuated by spite at Groton. . . . My record there was good...
Nowadays a mystery play is heralded by any title which suggests the horrible. Each plot contains an animal more terrible than the last. Bats, spiders, gorillas have been successful in providing thrills, and to them is added the octopus, the slimy vandal of the underseas. As the object of these beasts is to freeze the audience into that state of terror which precedes death and renders impossible thought, more and more frightful titles may be daily expected. Pithicanthropus erectus may soon overawe the spectators, or perhaps a pterodactyle; at the denouement they could, with customary plausibility, be found traveling salesmen...