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...affairs and get permission to leave. Once there were 5,000 British in Shanghai; now there, are 186, the men sitting forlornly in their empty offices, reading detective stories because the Chinese will let them do nothing else. The golf courses where Englishmen had played, the clubs where billiard balls had clicked, were silent and desolate. As for reports that things are now a little easier, one businessman snapped: "Oh, yes, the lift boy says 'Good morning' to you again, but they are still taking away the lift...
...library, at the apex of the house triangle, is the largest physically and is quite comfortable. The lighting--long a source of complaint--was improved two weeks ago. Also available are several piano rooms, one of them in the tower, a photo dark room, billiard and ping-pong tables, a record listening room, and a chapel...
...version of Manderley, of Rebecca fame. His host turns out to be an Edwardian dandy of 77 named Hazeldon Crome, who had himself written a novel in the '90s called A Quiet Day in Old Cockaigne. Crome charms Stephen completely with his milk & whisky pick-me-ups, his billiard game, and his nostalgic reveries on the days of Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley...
...world's largest manufacturer of bowling and billiard equipment, Chicago's Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. long ago found it profitable to spruce up bowling alleys and poolrooms, help turn them into recreation halls fit for schoolchildren. Last week Brunswick-Balke went into the classroom itself; it began making a line of school furniture...
...thugs while sightseeing in the Colosseum and dream that they are having all sorts of misadventures in ancient Rome. Among the picture's low-comedy highlights: the voluptuous Empress Poppea (Silvana Pampanini) taking a milk bath that out-DeMilles De-Mille; the sailors engaging in a pocket-billiard contest with Nero (Gino Cervi); gladiators waging a savage football game in the Colosseum with a Grecian urn as a pigskin; a Roman orgy with jitterbugging; a frenzied chariot race in which one of the vehicles is driven by Hopalong Cassius...