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...started out in 1905 as an assistant in a Paris gallery, and soon discovered that mere study was not enough; a true expert had to have "a sense" for fakes. One of the greatest connoisseurs he ever met was an uneducated genius who made his living running a brothel. In his spare time he hung questionable paintings on a clothesline in the house, invited Pupil Schoeller to find the fakes. "What!" he would scream when Schoeller made a mistake. "Look here. The whole corner has been painted in-and clumsily at that. See the different false shades?" Schoeller would look...
Playwright Truman (The Grass Harp) Capote gave a reporter in Rome a hint about his next play, to be partly in verse. It will be located in the West Indies, he said, with an almost all colored cast, and is "about life in a house of ill fame or brothel or whatever you call these houses with women inmates...
...most readers, The Red Carnation will seem to be simply a tale of adolescent love, writ in neon. Hero Mainardi is a 16-year-old schoolboy who falls in love with a girl student. She gives him a red carnation. But on visiting the local brothel, Mainardi promptly loses both his unstable heart and his symbolic carnation to a prostitute. In her, Mainardi sees all his boyish dreams of confident maturity come true; she sees in him the innocence and naturalness that she has lost...
...wide open." But in his junior year, the visiting white philanthropist whose car he is driving asks to be taken off the usual showplace rounds. They spend part of the day at the shack of a Negro who has made his own daughter pregnant, wind up at a ginmill brothel where the white millionaire learns some facts of Negro life that shake his do-goodism...
...Reporter. A San Francisco brothel is described as being at the corner of "Jackson and California" streets, which actually run parallel. Kansas City's Green Hills, where gambling is "open," has been closed for months. Billie Bennett, billed as one of Los Angeles' leading madams, has been dead for six months. The names of many streets and people are misspelled; some are even nonexistent. One reporter, to whom Lait mailed an autographed copy of the book as a reward for a tip, complained that Lait wrote his name wrong. Chicago's Democratic Boss Jack Arvey was amazed...