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...model for the Chicago picture is a pretty Rochester, N. Y. girl who occasionally poses for Eastman Kodak advertisements. She is 20, weighs 115 lb., wears a size 13 dress, a size 21 hat. She has soft brown eyes, a cupid-bow mouth, wavy, bobbed, brown hair. Her arms, legs, hands and feet are all long for her height. She posed behind a thin metal screen which was cut out in the centre so as to expose her torso and head to the full rays of a regular x-ray machine. By means of the screen...
...clergyman. David Harum is a New England horse-trader and village banker. Part rascal, part philanthropist, he makes it his business to further a romance between his shy clerk (Kent Taylor) and his pretty protege (Evelyn Venable). He accomplishes his purpose by trading to her a horse named Cupid, suitable for sentimental buggy rides because he balks...
...David Harum. Walter Woods's adaptation of Edward Noyes Westcott's famed novel is therefore in the nature of a Rogers column, illustrated with lantern slides. Sample slide: Rogers smoking, for the first time, a pipe filled not with tobacco but with an asthma cure. Groom to Cupid is a shiftless, unintelligible blackamoor named Sylvester (Stepin Fetchit). He dozes helplessly through the picture, whining a language of his own. When Cupid shivers after a rubdown, Sylvester puts a blanket on Will Rogers...
Save for the conscientious Nudist, the forbidden publications were all smut sheets, compendiums of "art studies'' bearing such titles as Wild Cherries, Cupid's Capers, Hollywood Squawks. Heretofore the sale of questionable magazines in New York has been combated with the vague threat of criminal prosecution. But austere little Mayor La Guardia has new ways of doing things. His commissioner of licenses simply announced that anyone in his jurisdiction who was caught selling dirty publications would be put out of business...
...Armed with machine-made sentiments of varying saccharinity, printed on special blanks, the telegraph people are prepared to welcome the onslaught. The absent-minded swain need only choose between such lightsome ditties as, "At miles between us we can laugh, our hearts entwined by telegraph" and the more Victorian, "Cupid's arrows swift and true wing my love...