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...Emperor. At one point the sightseers pass the monumental Church of the Madeleine but even their "Hallelujah!" is syncopated. Clad in the fulsome but insinuating draperies of the current princesse mode, the sightly visitors caper about such venerated Parisian landmarks as the Ritz Bar, American Express Co., Café de la Paix, Longchamps racetrack, Claridge Hotel, Château Madrid, Zelli's-all affectionately depicted by Designer Norman Bel Geddes...
Walter Ringer (alias Charley Ringer, Franz Rudis, Max Walter Ketter, Charles Long), 39, 5 ft. 6 in., heavy set, broad shouldered, for stealing U. S. mail upon the high seas aboard the S. S. Leviathan last year. A linguist, he conducts novelty shops, cafés, works as a seaman or carpenter. Reward...
School teachers spending their vacations quietly and safely in libraries and summer camps, or relaxing in foreign cafès from the rigors of disciplinarians, were shocked last week to hear what happened on the vacation of Philip Eaton, chemistry instructor at St. Marks, smart Massachusetts boys' preparatory school. Teacher Eaton had installed himself in a flat in Halfmoon Street, Mayfair, London. There he was found one morning by his housemaid, sprawled in a pool of blood. About his head, face and hands were razor cuts, ghastly after twelve hours of bleeding. On his body were heavy bruises...
...bravely through the War in the Foreign Legion. Therefore he gets the notion that he is qualified to marry a pretty French barkeeper, which he does, after romancing to her of his vast estates in the U. S. Not until his old master, Major Edward Powell, stumbles into the café and explains to Lise just what a Negro is, does she understand that her husband has been lying...
With mercenary indignation, she goes to bed with the Major in a room above the bar. When he comes out of this room, the Major looks over the banisters at tru café, full of the black soldiers of his regiment, drinking and laughing and watching a Senegalese Negro, who, in red breeches, is dancing, with a knife in his hand...