Word: curios
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Reaching For The Moon (United Artists). To bill Douglas Fairbanks in modern clothes is enough to fill any theatre, but this picture will thrive only as a curio...
...York City, Boston, Chicago have had their splendor wiped away by police cleanup squads during a decade. Modern Chinatowns stand revealed as parts of the surrounding slums. Down their narrow streets busloads of thrill seekers trudge, disappointedly viewing Christian missions, Presbyterian churches, sack-suited U. S. Chinese. Only in curio-shops and such tourist centres do the sightseers glimpse a tawdry replica of the surroundings in which mandarins once paraded their gorgeous costumes on Chinese festival-days, in which painted, gold-spangled girls were sold for hundreds of dollars, in which wide-sleeved, colorful hatchetmen fought slyly for the sake...
...Vollbehr's collection; there are 3,000 other items, including the first cookbook, the first book on music, the first on surgery, etc.. etc. Also, there is a book bound in the skin of a Spanish Jew persecuted for religious heresy, and many another curio...
...directness arguing a magazine apprenticeship. The ever vernal poor girl-rich boy theme is introduced with legato variations. An opening scene in which an ant covered antique hinge is concealed by the ingenue, Sally, in her silk unmentionables only to be hastily plucked forth as the man, Richard Clarke, curio collector, appears for the first time, constitutes good bait for the reader. Unfortunately, the pace slows down after this...
...ladies, the most intriguing is Diane. "People were quite ready to describe her as stupid, but her mouth was so red that everything she said seemed intelligent to me." Other stories concern a Chinese curio hunt in which one of the most remarkable curios is a lady's virtue; a treasure hunt which comes near to being a civil war; a horse of Genghis Khan...