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...Marxes to splashing around in it. Hotels, real estate and climate are treated with extreme irreverence. Somewhere in the first act there is a diamond robbery and somewhere in the second a minstrel show. The amazing Marxes contribute scene after scene of rattle-brained revelry. Groucho (with the cigar) and Harpo (he says nothing) are the principal disturbances. Mr. Berlin has contributed two excellent tunes, "A Little Bungalow" and "Florida," and Mr. Harris brilliant masses of costume and scenery. And the result of all this is that for some little time you will probably encounter considerable difficulty in buying tickets...
...Cigar-holders...
Otto H. Kahn. In the tonneau of his limousine Otto Hermann Kahn (if the reporter had not made a mistake) settled himself for whatever reflections were his at that hour of an autumn afternoon. He might have thought, for a cigar puff or two, of widely separated and irrelevant things?of the year he served in the German Army in the early eighties?;-of what Roosevelt once said of him*?of the fact that his son, Roger Wolff Kahn, has organized a very successful jazz orchestra?of the respectful way in which the press is beginning to call...
Near Mr. Kennerley on the deck of the Majestic stood Jules Mast-baum, cinema magnate. He submitted to the routine of cameras and notebooks with such a look of satisfaction as a man might wear who had just nipped off the end of a fine cigar or buried his nose in the bouquet of an old bottle...
...honored. (In its booth on the floor below the Court, this substance, a compound of phenol and formaldehyde, was shown, possessing strength, resisting heat, chemicals and electricity, possessing permanent color and finish. It was shown molded in gorgeous beads, rings, pendants, watch charms, necktie gauds; into smoking pipes, cigar holders like amber, glowing cane knobs, translucent manicure sets; into durable motor fittings, telephone instruments, tool handles...