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While homage was thick in London, Paris burbled over Picasso's latest joke. Sitting as usual in the evening at the Café de Flore with a chic woman, the forelocked Spaniard who has the Midas touch was joined by three picture dealers, then by three more. He picked up an empty cigaret package, cryptically manipulated it under the table, finally brought out a little figurine of a dancer with the remark: "Well, there's the latest Picasso." Amid a chorus of admiring compliments, artist and girl friend departed. The six picture dealers were just on the point...
...singing westerns, as in other musical pictures, songs must be "excused," which accounts for the fact that most of the action which does not occur on horseback occurs in well-appointed cafés. Also, as in Rhythm of the Saddle, which has an unbelievably elaborate racketeer and gambler plot, heroes are more likely to be rodeo performers than practicing cowboys. Western devotees, growing effete, do not find these anomalies objectionable...
...many of them Jews, rumbled into an anti-Semitic demonstration, Prague's first since Nazi annexation of the Czech territory. University students and young doctors milled about the famed square of Wenceslas, named for the Czech patron saint, and chanted "Down with the Jews," "Czechoslovakia for the Czechoslovaks." Cafés were invaded and many frightened Jewish patrons hustled into the streets before police dispersed the demonstrators...
Cinema producers, as a class, rightly or wrongly have the reputation of being uncultured, brash and boorish. On the theory that this reputation is a liability, the producers agreed that one means of combatting anti-Semitism would be to render themselves less vulnerable to unfavorable publicity, by abstaining from café society, ostentatious gambling for large stakes, misconduct with "Aryan" actresses. When cinema morals were under fire in 1922, the Hays Organization was given the job of raising the standards of personal behavior among cinema performers. Confronted with the problem of their own behavior, producers proposed to establish an organization...
Appointed "social ambassadress-at-large" for San Francisco's 1939 Golden Gate International Exposition was Manhattan café society's clown, Elsa Maxwell. Irked, the N. Y. Daily News's World's Fair-conscious "Nancy Randolph" (real name: Frances Kilkenny) wrote: ". . . To-day this column intends to whack Grover Whalen hard for letting the rival San Francisco Exposition grab that peerless partygiver and fun-maker, Elsa Maxwell. Of course, Grover Whalen has Mrs. Astor . . . but she doesn't like publicity...