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Joao Pessoa, assassinated President (Governor) of the State of Parahyba, lay in his coffin in Recife, State of Pernambuco last week and no one dared take him home. News of his death, escaping over foreign cables, lifted one corner of the veil of secrecy which has shrouded affairs in Parahyba since January...
...sacrificed to some forgotten god; in a golden tomb lies the skeleton of a dead white woman who was part queen and part divinity. As Count de Prorok's party cross the desert in specially equipped cars- they meet a contemporary Caucasian tribe whose beautiful women wear no veils but whose men veil their faces and use rouge from boyhood...
...friends Calamity Jane, Fearless Frank, Catamount Diamond, Sitting Bull. Younger fry read wonderingly of the swaggering, snarling, laughing outlaw of South Dakota's Black Hills, tried to picture his tight-fitting habit of black buckskin, his black "thorough bred steed," his broad black hat with "a thick black veil over the upper portion of his face through the eyeholes of which gleamed a pair of orbs of piercing intensity." Thrilling indeed to New Yorkers was it to follow the band of masked riders through the Black Hills, into stage coach holdups, battles with the Sioux, robberies, murders, escapes-always...
...modern movement is a conscious effort to direct and canalize the stupendous energy of modern civilization between its proper architectural embankments. . . . Seizing the opportunity offered by the elimination of the requirement of gravitational stability with imagination and courage [the Modernist] has suspended about his skeleton framework a gossamer veil of glass and light building materials, and created a new style based on the old common law of architecture reformulated to meet modern needs in the light of modern economic and engineering genius...
...glorifying stagecraft instead of using stagecraft to sharpen entertainment. Actually the entertainment value of King of Jazz is considerably less than that of an unelaborated concert by the Whiteman orchestra; the level of wit is indicated by such parodies as "All Noisy on the Eastern Front" and the "Bridal Veil" number in which, to an incredibly stupid lyric, "the brides of long ago" parade as they have paraded in vaudeville for 15 years...