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...properties to transform a bandstand in the Park into a "tonsorial emporium" of the 1890's. They dug up three old barber chairs, Police Gazettes, a coal stove, a flyspecked clock, pictures of John L. Sullivan, Jim Jeffries, Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, a rack of shaving mugs, a mustache curler, charts showing styles in mustaches, whiskers and such haircuts as the Saratoga, Newport, Elite, Square and Senator. With these they set the stage which was decorated with green & pink walls and flanked with tall striped barber poles...
Meanwhile the divorce rush in the Washoe County Court slacked off after Judges Moran and Curler had dissolved 83 marriages the first day at the rate of one every five minutes (TIME, May 11, et ante). Three divorcees remarried within the hour, one of them taking the Reno lawyer who had just secured her decree...
...Wash day" followed the weekend. Busiest Reno citizens were the two judges of Washoe District Court, Thomas Francis ("Barney") Moran and Benjamin Frank-lin Curler. Judge Moran, a Scot in his 503, stoutish with thin grey hair, teaches a young men's Bible class at the Baptist church. His brother is a Roman Catholic priest. On the bench hearing divorce cases, he tilts his head back, eyes the witness under his glasses. Popular with Reno's transient colony, he likes to marry a woman to a new husband a few minutes after he has divorced her from...
...Judge Curler, 63, is credited with doing much to make Reno the divorce capital of the U. S. when he sat on the local bench 25 years ago. Last year he was elected again to the district court by defeating famed Judge George ("Judgie") Bartlett (TIME, Sept. 15). Grave and dignified, he eyes divorce witnesses over his glasses. Fortnight ago he tilted too far back in his chair, went sprawling to the floor at the height of an important divorce case...
...Judges Curler and Moran set themselves a ten-minute schedule to hear divorce cases, hoped to beat the record of 52 granted in one day. Most of the wives marching into courthouse to get their decrees wore smoked glasses, a new fashion designed to prevent news cameramen from taking recognizable pictures of them...