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...extreme. The scene of the action is the stage of a Chinese theatre. The Property Man (Arthur Shaw) sits off to one side drinking tea and smoking a cigarette. Every so often he gets up with a bored look, to tend to his duties. He throws down a red cushion to signify a gory head, tosses pieces of paper around to depict a snowstorm, etc. The sheer artificiality of this conventional, pseudo-Chinese method of representation is at first somewhat startling, then vaguely amusing, but finally becomes pretty bore-some. However, the completely disinterested attitude of the Property...
...fancy shot billiard artist, will demonstrate some of his uncanny cue feats before members of the Freshman Class in the Union Billiard room at 3 o'clock this afternoon. One of Peterson's well known tricks consists of hitting the ball with enough English so that it strikes one cushion six times. Peterson is lining up college players for the third annual intercollegiate billiard championship, which gets under way early next month...
...protect their tender fundaments, Monte Carlo croupiers sit on soft leather doughnuts, as experience has shown that this shape of cushion is best for the work. Even so, spinning a roulette wheel while keeping argus eyes on ladies and gentlemen who are prone to cheat is nerve-racking business. To keep croupiers from having nervous breakdowns they are changed every few hours, retire between times to a musty lounge below stairs equipped with shower baths. But sooner or later a Monte Carlo croupier was sure to go crazy in public...
...House of Morgan headed a bankers' pool (Partner Whitney, who said he was "gun shy" of the word "pool." preferred to call it a "suspense account") to cushion the crashing stockmarket. It had resources of $250,000,000 of which it spent $137,752,705 in making a market for 37 key stocks. By 1930 the pool had turned a paper loss of $40,000,000 into a cash profit of $1,067,355. Morgan & Co. charged no commission for its services...
...Hospital in Tokyo. According to the Japanese law his body was washed and prepared for cremation. But not his white plume, not his badge of honor. To his death bed came his son and reverently clipped the mustaches away. They were bound with white silk, laid on a satin cushion in a separate casket and buried with all honor in a separate burial mound...