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...Vinita, Okla., Raymond Brock stood in his backyard happily burning his oldest suit. He had just celebrated the saving of $1,000 by buying a new suit, was celebrating the new suit by burning the old. Happily he poked at the charred cloth. Out of the ashes rolled all that was left of Raymond Brock...
...long tables in a Manhattan loft building sat half a hundred girls, their deft fingers flying between stacks of folded rotogravure pages, piles of little fabric squares, and pots of paste. All day long, day after day for a week, they neatly pasted the little squares of cloth onto the printed pages. There were 980,000 cloth samples, called "swatches" by retailers, and cut from 6,000 yd. of material, to be affixed to 469,000 copies of rotogravure with 250 Ib. of paste. When all was finished. 15 trucks carted the 16 tons of paper to the New York...
Into a railroad siding at Richmond Hill, L. I. one day last week rolled a Pullman car on whose sides, in gilt letters, was printed ST. PETER. Presently a small boy clambered aboard. Within he discovered a chapel, an altar complete with tabernacle, candlesticks and altar cloth. Crossing himself he said a prayer, departed. Soon another youngster appeared. Of a priest reading on the observation platform of ST. PETER he asked: "Can you use an altar boy?" Yes, Rev. Cornelius Edward Murphy could. Next morning at mass he employed the services of the first moppet, who had sent his small...
Hollywood Party (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) opens with Jimmy Durante as "Schnarzan the Great," burlesquing Johnny Weismuller in a scene with Lupe Velez (Mrs. Johnny Weismuller). Says Durante: "Beneath this here lion's cloth beats a heart that's seethin' with sentiment." Says Velez: "I'll bet you say that to every animal." Distressed, Durante uproots a tree, beats his chest, yodels through his nose. The picture also contains a plot in which Durante functions as an outdoor cinema star entertaining a visiting big game hunter (Jack Pearl). Durante hopes to use Pearl's lions...
...building's Gothic decorations and demanded a "new" style in ornaments, Cass Gilbert gave a reply which described his traditional, assured attitude toward architecture: "New schools of design come, with intervals of centuries between, by slow evolution, and can no more be created out of whole cloth than new social orders or systems of government. The problem of this great shaft cried aloud for some form of Gothic treatment and the soaring sense of uplift achieved more than justifies it." But that Cass Gilbert could also achieve complete simplicity in mass was proved by his enormous warehouse...