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...Hollywood he went over a year ago fired with his pet idea, the production of full length cinema operas in Italy where tenors are as plentiful as olives. There he met Producer Hal Roach. Mr. Roach has spent a great many of his 45 years in Hollywood among the custard pies of its comedy lots. There he demonstrated his possession of the common touch of producing interminable series of Our Gang pictures, in which succeeding generations of fat, freckled, good, bad, pretty and colored children were featured. Mr. Roach made a fortune out of these films but this spring...
...range from the reminiscences of a (Saroyan) schoolboy to speculative statements on the (Saroyan) universe. But whether the scene is barbershop, vaudeville, honkytonk, back street or California valley, Saroyan's brooding eye sees more in it than would meet an ordinary fact-finding glance. He sits through a custard-pie cinecomedy "but God Al mighty it didn't seem funny to me and I sat in the darkness trying to laugh, but I kept thinking, 'Why are they wasting everything, why are they making all these mistakes, why is everybody so awkward and mean, what...
...cities in the U. S. and Canada; 3) established a modern valuable art library; 4) published 38 different books and pamphlets; 5) put on many a radio art program; 6) established a cinema museum which is preserving for students such valued films as the first Mack Sennett custard pies, The Birth of a Nation, Sarah Bernhardt as Queen Elizabeth, the first sound picture (Al Jolson's Jazz Singer), Rudolph Valentino in Monsieur Beaucaire. Besides the donations from Miss Bliss, Mrs. Rockefeller and others, the Museum acquired few months ago Surrealist Salvador Dali's famed canvas of the limp...
...bakeries was Cushman's Sons' branch at White Plains, N. Y., 20 mi. north of the New York City boundary. Last week Cushman's Sons mixed the bulk egg yolks with vanilla, sugar, cornstarch, milk and water to make custard filling for cream puffs and eclairs. Four thousand such pastries were sold one day to consumers in White Plains, Yonkers, Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Ossining, Scarsdale, Tarrytown and a score other communities. Next day two thousand eaters of those cream puffs and éclairs were violently sick at their stomachs, poisoned by pus germs in the custard...
...weeks ago the same thing happened on a smaller scale in Providence and neighboring communities. The troublemaker in that situation was a small baker named Deschene who left a bucket of cream puff and éclair custard in the open where vermin could...