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Last month Burlesqueen Ann Corio made her debut as a legitimate actress at the Kenley Deer Lake Theatre on the outskirts of Pennsylvania's hard-coal district. Cast as "Princess Kalima," the hula dancer in The Barker (with silent cinema stars James Kirkwood and Lila Lee), the shapely stripper played her first legitimate role rather solemnly, moved many a simple miner with her earnest emoting. But more important than Miss Corio's acting was her success in combining drama with louse opera: she worked from conventional street dress in the first act to a G-string...
...homegrown. Last year Mr. O'Malley challenged Major Casey to a by-election fight on Major Casey's policies as Federal Treasurer of the Commonwealth. Said O'Malley, "I'm just jazzing about to save funeral expenses, but if Mr. Casey stood again for the Corio seat in the Federal Parliament, I'd have a go against...
...Octogenarian O'Malley get, because Major Casey resigned from the Cabinet, left Corio for what most Aussies agreed was the biggest post, next to Prime Minister, in the Government: Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the U. S. Last week Major Casey (whose hobby is flying) deplaned in Washington, with a walloping blessing from his old rival, O'Malley: "Casey has a great opportunity in America, if he leaves his Homburger hat and English side at home. He might even bring Australia within the scope of the Monroe Doctrine. If we enjoyed the privileges Canada has . . . we would...
...dominated by a talking-machine with a Gargantuan, oldfashioned, master's-voice horn. Presiding there since 1926 has been cultured, convivial Faik (pronounced "fah-eek") Konitza, a sixtyish bachelor who reads 13 languages, has an earned M. A. from Harvard University and numbers among his friends beauteous Ann Corio, famed Italianate strip-teaseuse...
...most unblushing Parisian chorine, much more to Manhattan's polyglot population with its admixture of northern blood. Succumbing to their own ambition for spotlights and publicity and big box-office appeal, the leaders of the trade have made too much noise, and no less an authority than Ann Corio has claimed that the industry was "getting along nicely as long as Mr. Minsky kept his nose out of it". And secondly those who have risen in indignation to put a stop to the evil have spoken with a voice of authority that would have been difficult to deny. When...