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...many as 15,000 copies. To get away from U. S. crassness -and expense-he had taken himself, his wife and their two sons to a Pyrenean village in the south of France. When royalty checks stopped coming, and Kate was pregnant once again, and credit at the butcher's and baker's grew narrower, Alec's creative flow dried up to nearly nothing. As household chores became major problems, his and Kate's intercourse became a continuous quarrel. At last he threw up the dry sponge, gave up his thankless Art, took them all home...
Rounding out the bill is a typical detective story picture, "Smart Blonde" featuring Glenda Farrel as a newspaper reporter who goes soft over a butcher-like sleuth (Barton MacLane...
Bill Wright stayed in Ontario, living by himself in a barnlike mansion in Barrie, a small town 40 miles north of Toronto. A onetime British butcher, he served in the Boer War, got a veteran's grant in Canada, turned to prospecting when the land proved barren. During the World War he was famed as the only millionaire private in the Canadian Expeditionary Force. So rich he does not know what to do with his money, he nevertheless complains bitterly about two things: 1) having to walk downstairs to answer the telephone at night and 2) having...
Cleveland's police did not make this startling announcement out of callousness, nor were they taking lightly the atrocious murder. They made their statement apparently in desperation, on the slim chance that the butcher-murderer would show himself when he learned that his punishment would be so light. Reason for their desperation was that last week's dismembered body was the eighth that had been found in Cleveland since September 1934, when Torso No. 1, also that of an unknown female, similarly butchered, was found at the same spot. The other six-five males, one female-all dismembered...
...public." Neither event occurred, nor did such promised attractions as the first performance of Symphonic Vaseline by Tristan Tzara to be played by an orchestra of 20. Instead, young conservatives in the pit turned dadaists themselves, hurled tomatoes and hunks of raw meat (procured from a nearby butcher shop) at the stage while the dadaists volleyed back the missiles with delighted gusto. The owner of the building, Mme Gaveau, shouted furious protests from...