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...Golden Bed. Cecil B. De Mille is the man who made the marble bath tub and the towering music room symbols of riches and society. Silk sheets and aquatic revels in the garden were his stock in trade. He became one of the conspicuous cinema cheaters of truth. He prospered. This one is about a bed with an ancient history and how its influence affected modern characters. It has specimen splendor of the De Mille method. It is about as tasty as painted candy...
...very persistent and I became interested in him as he improved. I put him through the regular course of training, which we follow in our country. That includes the Finnish bath, which every runner in Finland must take about twice a week...
...Nurmi had a small shed of his own in which he put a stove with stones, heated red hot, on top. He used to go in and take his bath. He'd get up on a shelf above the stove and pour water onto the stones. After he got well steamed up he would take a--what is it you say?--a 'bouquet' of sticks and flay himself...
Miss Greenwood is a friendly sort of person who takes the audience along with her--even into the bath room scene which is the star performance of the evening, being a riotous combination of two telephones, a dumb waiter, a dumber delivery man, hot water, cold ice and a burglar. Among other good sketches must be classed "Crossed Wires" in which the operator gets off at least six good ones in a row, and "Crystal Wedding Day". This has in it some brand new mirror effects...
...lawn of the John Dickson Home for Invalids, in the northwestern part of the Capital, was erected, on an octagonal pedestal of yellow marble, four and a half feet high, a bird bath. Around its rim is inscribed: "Dedicated to the birds of Piney Branch by Elise and Jules Jusserand, 1903-1925." Piney Branch is a neighboring stream famous as a gathering spot for song birds. There Mr. Jusserand dedicated the fountain to his "feathered companions, from an old friend of Washington's warblers...