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Certainly, Chevalier has lost none of the suavity that made him the cane-twirling darling of Continental and American revues. In fact, his charm makes it hard to understand how the young girl could prefer the bumbling young actor. While Francois Perreier, who plays Jacques, is properly eager, mooning and puffing in approximation of romantic ardor, and Marcelle Derrien is a pert and lovely Madeleine, both pale in the light of Chevalier's dazzling smile...
...Lewis might have reached the top as a straight musician without his top hat, cane and patter. His free-riding clarinet was imitated by the young Benny Goodman, and his band gave asylum to such latter-day jazz greats as Muggsy Spanier, Jimmy Dorsey and George Brunis. His recording of St. Louis Blues sent hepcats of the '20s as far out of this world as people got in those days. But Ted was too much of a showman to stick to music. Today it is not the Lewis clarinet that people come for, but the sleepy smile...
...processions that snake out into the countryside, laughing and joking and singing creole chants to the accompaniment of throbbing tambours and booming vaccines (huge bamboo pipes that give off hollow, resonant notes when blown). Waving clubs, machetes and old colonial swords, they thrash through the ravines and cane-brakes, and if by chance they first come upon a neighboring band's Judas, so much the better-they whack it up with glee. By noon Haiti is strewn with dismembered dummies, bleeding sawdust, and rags...
...more than twice the 1945 price, the publishers heard good news about a possible cheaper substitute. In New Orleans, Valentine Pulp & Paper Co. announced that it would build a $2,633,000 mill at Lockport, La. to make newsprint from bagasse, a waste fiber left after grinding sugar cane. In a year, Valentine expects to be turning out 50 tons a day, get other companies interested in the process...
...race track. What happened next was related in a Karachi court by the Begum's senior maid. "She came back at 6. Bano was crying, 'Give me water, loosen me!' Her Highness kicked Bano twice and ordered me to bring a cane and with it she beat Bano. Then she turned on me and screamed: 'You daughter of a pig! How dare you look...