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...Napoleon Intrudes" is called by its author, Walter Hasenclaver, the noted German expressismist, "An adventure in seven pictures." It portrays 'Napoleon," a wax figure in a museum, together with other celebrities such as Mussolini, the President of the United States, and the French Bluebeard, Monsieur Landru, who becomes dissatisfied with the condition of affairs in Europe. He gets himself into a convention of nations, a movie studio, and a madhouse in rapid succession; by his continual insistence that he is Napoleon people are convinced that he is insane. Finally he gives up his idea of reorganizing the governments of Europe...
...plot of the drama centers around a group of wax figures in a Paris Museum. Napoleon, one of these, decides to see the modern world. In doing so, he encounters everything from a peace conference to a motion picture actress's boudoir. He finally returns to his waxen immobility, determined to let the world take care of itself...
During N'Gi's illness the U. S. Press became ape-conscious. In Washington another gorilla, named O'Kero, fell ill of a cold, recovered, as did two chimpanzees, Teddy and Jo-Jo. These episodes were reported far & wide, but nowhere did a U. S. writer wax so eloquent as did Colyumist "Doc" Adams of the Honolulu Star-Bulletin upon the death last month of a goitrous orang-outang named Jennie. Colyumist Adams wrote the following elegy...
...running. Olympic ski-runners usually carry, in unlabeled tubes which they distinguish by smell. 50 kinds of ski-wax. The problem in a race is to use the right kind. Johan Grottumsbraaten, of Norway, champion in 1924, lost the lang lauf. Two Swedes-Sven Utterstrom, heretofore a long distance champion, and his teammate, Axel Vikstrom-came in first, with two Finns behind them. Arne Rustadstuen and Grottumsbraaten were fifth & sixth. Next day, Grottumsbraaten's two jumps of 161 & 163 ft. were in good enough form to give him the combined (ski-running, ski-jumping) championship...
...Successor to the more famed Eden Musee which ran for 30 years in Manhattan's West 2nd Street and was among the first cinema exhibitors (Bluebeard, in color). Most famed of all wax works, Madame Tussaud's in London, burned...