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...Counts of Toulouse ruled Southern France for centuries, but nothing in the life of his heroic forebears became the Toulouses so much as the gallantry with which the disfigured dwarf made of himself a gay, broken blade in Paris. He never developed the cripple's defense mechanism of a sweet nature; instead he swaggered through the world on toddler's legs. He drank big men under tables as high as his proud chin. When he closed his eyes, he experienced the horrors of alcoholic hallucination, but with his eyes open, Count Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec saw with...
...went over the side into the noisome drink. As the vessel was cut loose from its moorings, the other guests, led by the huzzahing duke, chucked hats, umbrellas, dead champagne bottles, blossoms and most of the boat's lifebelts to the dunked two. At midnight the royal gay blade cruised on to another debutante party. After some frenzied jitterbugging, he hollered: "Let's have fun! I'm a bit fed up with being told what to do!" He bawled for more champagne, got it, was soon teetering along a narrow parapet, 40 ft. above the street...
When it was all over Lamb counted his costs ($35,000), licked his wounds and bravely talked of next year. But even in defeat, he drew little sympathy. Editorialized his home-town Toledo Blade:"Here in Toledo, where Mr. Lamb's personality and methods have not won him quite the esteem which the Seiberlings seem to enjoy in Akron, the prevailing view will be that it couldn't have happened to a more deserving fellow...
Nutty Salesman. Bob taxed his mind power to capacity to get his career rolling. When he first tried to crash Broadway, he got nowhere until he made a brief trip to London, returned with a British accent and a new name-Blade Stanhope Conway. He was hired for the Broadway production of Galsworthy's The Roof. When the vogue for English actors faded, Bob changed his name to Brice Hutchens, emerged as a juvenile lead in the Ziegfeld Follies and, finally, adopted a Texas accent and took his own name to play opposite Margaret Sullavan in Hollywood...
What with hushing up the scandal, and the phony baby ploy, Blade finds that Adams is gaining ground. Still he needles his staff with the first law of gimmickry: "There ain't any highbrow in lowbrows, but there's some lowbrow in everybody." Where is the golden kazoo† that will pied-pipe the voters into the Adams camp? Before Election Day rolls around, Blade finds the kazoo and a tune to tootle...