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...forlorn. Nan Sunderland's Desdemona was a graceful and impulsive lady, much more exciting than the demure Desdemonas who were in vogue when Central City last saw Othello. Kenneth MacKenna, whose brother. Scene Designer Jo Mielziner, was in the audience, made lago a villain of monstrous subtlety and venom. The Jones' sets, sparkling with Venetian color, were amazingly well handled throughout a one-intermission performance on a stage equipped only with a hand curtain. An audience of 750 which included Cinemagnate Jesse Lasky, Producer Max Gordon. Mr. & Mrs. Alan Campbell (Dorothy Parker), cheered itself hoarse after the performance...
...late great Henry James, her idol, became her friend. Jamesians will enjoy the many anecdotes she tells (too lengthy for quotation) of the Master's circuitous crotchets. She met "everybody," seems to have liked them all except George Moore, whose malicious conversation she describes as "a torrent of venom. It was the tone of The Dunclad without its wit." Though France is Edith Wharton's second home (she has lived there since 1907), most of her 42 books have been concerned with the U. S. scene. She does not admit which literary child is her favorite, but says...
Calm and fearless, the bushmaster is one of the rare snakes (others: African mamba, Malayan king) which will attack a human being without provocation. Though its venom is slightly less toxic than the fer-de-lance's, it injects far more, hence is deadlier. One human victim died in less than ten minutes...
Chuffing out of Rio on Royal Albert's special last week. President Justo made for Sao Paulo and Santos. "The Coffee Heart of Brazil." After visiting famed Butantan Snake Farm, where deft attendants showed him how anti-snake-bite vaccine is made from venom, President Justo rode out to a typical Brazilian coffee jazenda, then embarked at Santos to sail home on the Argentine dreadnaught Moreno. He had not even reached home when an incident occurred to give a decidedly ironic twist to the peace negotiations. A cousin and a nephew of President Vargas were killed in a minor...
Toad Juice. In Eli Lilly's Indianapolis drug laboratories where he directs pharmacological research. Dr. Ko Kuei Chen, Johns Hopkins graduate, applied himself to finding out what there is in folk medicine which helps Chinese cure toothache, sinusitis and mouth sores with applications of dried toad venom and which made Shakespeare note: "Sweet are the uses of adversity, which like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head (As You Like It). From glands located behind the eyes of 7,500 U. S., German, Jamaican, Uruguayan, South African, Chinese and Japanese toads. Dr. Chen...