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Sherry, a formal dinner, demi-tasse and cigars, and the Tower glowing orange light which follow this invitation are merely the outward forms...
...brush them off the table anyway. Barnett brings me a plate with a finger bowl and doily on it. I remove the finger bowl and doily and John puts a glass saucer and a little bowl on the plate. Barnett brings me some chocolate custard. John brings me a demi-tasse (at home a little cup of coffee-about two good gulps) and my dinner is over. I take a hand bath in the finger bowl and go back to work. What a life...
...diners finished off their demi-tasses, the toastmaster announced the Grand New March. A blue spotlight blanked on, wandered around the stage, and finally fell upon a heavy woman dressed in black and with long, flashing carrings, who was striding toward the microphone at the edge of the platform. The orchestra struck up a jaunty melody and there was a song about marching on. The audience joined in on the second stanza and a hand stuck out over the balcony to wave time...
...demi-paradise until the Japanese army invaded early in 1942. Three and a half years in prison camps taught her "that there were just two things which could break a heart; one is the terrible harshness of man, the other is his transfiguring mercy." While the Japs gave her rib-cracking beatings and starved her to a gaunt 80 Ibs., friendly Borneans took long chances smuggling packets of food to her and her two-year...
Died. A. H. ("Al") Woods (real name: Aladore Herman), 81, who made and lost several fortunes as producer of hundreds of Broadway and road shows, ranging from early-century corn (Bertha, the Sewing Machine Girl) to naughty jazz-age farces (The Demi-Virgin) to hit plays (The Green Hat, with Katharine Cornell; The Trial of Mary Dugan, with Ann Harding) ; in Manhattan...