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Equipped with English subtitles, Sable Cicada is an ingratiating curio, remarkable for sets, costumes and genial Chinese mugging by I. E. Koo, as the lustful Prime Minister. Most censorable sequence: mischievous Cicada pretending to commit suicide and then lying to both admirers about her reasons...
...Love by Hildegarde, tremolo rendering of a Gershwin tune on the harmonica by Larry Adler, and the cultivated, funereal tones of an English master of ceremonies paying tribute to the composer in odd counterpoint to the smooth, Hebrew melodies of the Jazz King. While this curio was being put on sale in Manhattan phonograph shops, one of the least sentimental and most interesting events in the commemoration of George Gershwin since his death was an exhibition, at Marie Harriman Gallery, of his own paintings...
...Tokyo, Osaka, Kobe and Nagasaki Japanese antiquaries and curio dealers have come to know a U. S. citizen with white hair and glittering spectacles who approaches them smiling politely, holds his finger tips close together and cries over & over "Chiisai! Chiisai! Small! Small!" It is Jules Charbneau of Mount Clemens, Mich, on one of his round-the-world trips searching for minuscule knickknacks. Many collections of little things, from the elder J. P. Morgan's miniatures to Queen Mary's doll house, are better known and of greater artistic worth, but none is larger than the Jules Charbneau...
...regular passenger service, it was originally bought by John Maddux for his Los Angeles-San Francisco airline, later by T. A. T.-Maddux for transcontinental service. Placed in Penn Station as a living advertisement for air travel, it had long ago ceased to be anything more than a curio. Last week 30 students from the Casey Jones School of Aeronautics at Newark removed the old-fashioned wicker chairs from the cabin, dismantled the wings, motors, fuselage, shipped the parts to Dearborn, Mich, where they will be reassembled as a permanent exhibit in the Ford Museum...
...climbed a hill to cut fuel and fell dead. Women with babies, exhausted and despairing, laid down to die." *The President's adopted son, James Lin, postgraduates at Columbia. Said he of his father in Manhattan last week: "He neither smokes nor drinks. His only hobby is curio collecting. Every evening from 7 to 8 he sits with his curios. Sometimes he will set out a rare piece he has recently acquired and leave it out for a few days, but after that it goes with the others into...