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...Lived Next to the Firehouse. This burlesque reaches an eventful climax when a brigade of smoke-eaters, having individually secreted themselves in the home of a igth Century charmer, are roused out by a fire alarm, rush off to the blaze clad in long red-flannel underclothing. Main plot: a group of firemen are enamored of the lady who lives next door, court her privily when her husband (a traveling salesman) is away, are found out and have to explain their activities to their wives. To create atmosphere of the gay '90s, old wheezes are cracked, luxurious mustaches...
...transient U. S. tourists; instead they have good friends among the French bourgeoisie (U. S.: upper classes). When Barbara arrives in Paris she is a small-town Southern girl, almost a type. Her aunt's canny tutelage, her own adaptability, latent good sense, transform her into an original charmer. When she marries good-natured, talented, rich Michel it is a love-match, but satisfactory to all; Mrs. Selby breathes a sigh of relief and goes on a bender with her husband...
Arthur Pryor's Band, now strictly a march recording organization, is well represented in the exchanges by dance selections. But the prize of all is a release of 1910, entitled "The Charmer." This record, a best seller in its day, was a xylophone solo, and the belles of the season all dropped their cherished copies of "Oh Mr. Dream Man--Please Let Me Dream Some More" and rushed...
...debts all round" would be to leave the United States standing the whole loss. They can never see it that way! Their Government and their Peer-subsidized press has got them as hypnotized on that point as a basketful of baby rabbits under the eye of an Indian snake charmer. Let them keep quiet and pay what they owe- which is what they always pretend that they are doing. SITWELL R. PACKARD...
Whether snakes respond instinctively to the charmer's whines and whistles is still an unsettled problem in animal psychology. Snakes have little brain and much spine. They are quick to respond to stimuli, and perhaps react directly to seductive vibrations. More probably their swaying-it is no dance-is a conditioned reflex. Charmers feed their snakes well, in India with milk, flour balls and meat (frogs). And it is doubtless with mounting hope of meals that snakes raise themselves to the fakir's minor music. Charmers who have tried their art in U. S. zoos and serpentaria have...