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...apartment in Manhattan's Hotel Savoy-Plaza. In his rooms were several bottles of champagne, some cognac. The Count intended giving a dinner. But before he had finished his bath Federal agents entered his apartment, seized the liquor, discovered and seized also a pistol, arrested the bather...
...rest of the apartment, flat, house, etc. The Story: Pierre Dutel, also Kerstin Taube, Manhattan interior decor-tors, are sponsoring mirror-tiled bathrooms, tubs & washstands encased in mirrored glass, swan fixtures.* Reflections from the mirrors to the right, reflections from the mirrors to the left confront the bather. To the U. S. soon will come turquoise blue porcelain tubs, basins, says M. Dutel...
...might interest your readers to know that bathing in the Philippines is conducted in any convenient place-at a well or "on the bank of a stream where the carabao dream" and so far as adult females are concerned there is no undue exposure of the person. When the bather arrives at the place of the bath she loosens her saya (skirt) which is tied round her waist and lifts it to cover her bosom. She then removes her floppy camisa (waist) and camison (chemise) if she wears the latter garment, kicks aside her chinelas (slippers) and goes...
...fell asleep, a wide straw hat on my head, my legs dangling overboard into the water. I awoke, startled by furtive splashing near my lonely boat. To my horror, two huge sharks were circling about, churning the water, swirling greedily. I drew in my legs. I recalled that a bather near Genoa had been eaten alive by sharks last month. I rowed for shore. The brutes charged me many times but I got to safety, spread a warning...
There were a marble bust and a slim bather spun in clay by Barbara Herbert of Manhattan, first U. S. sculptress ever admitted to the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Rosa Bonheur's pupil, Anna Klumpke of California, showed a hot-colored flower study. Young George Hill, who preserves what he can of the solitude and fresh air of his native northern Michigan by living in one of the loftiest studios on the Boulevard de Montparnasse, received fresh compliments for his clear, restful "Tea on a Balcony...