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...French expositions of the past. Greatest of these was Paris 1900, attended by thirty-nine millions before closing day. but a worthy successor was Paris 1931 with thirty-three and a half millions. On May 23 only four pavilions were ready when Paris 1937 was "inaugurated" by sad-eyed, droop-mustached French President Albert Lebrun, but last week 160 pavilions were complete and the Exposition was all but finished. Wiseacres agreed that a solid month of sightseeing would be necessary to make a thorough job of Paris 1937 and that this week the one word for it was "SUCCESS...
...return from time to time. Drugs only allay the pain, never cure it. Some surgeons stop the neuralgia by cutting the offending nerve, thus preventing it from carrying its message of pain to the brain. This operation occasionally paralyzes the painful side of the face, causes the features to droop lopsidedly. Other surgeons treat facial neuralgia by injecting alcohol into the nerve, thus stultifying it for a period. This procedure is difficult. The operator must push his hypodermic needle through the cheek and into a small notch in the skull midway between cheek bone and ear. Then he must blindly...
...trial in Supreme Court were swart, droop-eyed Charles Lucania and nine henchmen charged with having put New York City brothels on a big-business basis. Until 1933, explained Special Prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey in his opening address to the jury, the city's prostitution was an individualistic enterprise, with a few "bookers" operating small strings of "houses" (apartments). Then various racketeers decided that a handsome profit could be made by assessing each prostitute $10 per week for bail bond, on a guarantee that she would never be jailed. One autumn day Lucania, a gambler and narcotic seller known...
...American Cinderella Man." This is Bette Davis' first film since she won an Academy award for acting in Dangerous (TIME, March 16)- a fact of which Warner Brothers made much use in their advertising. Although Miss Davis still can make her eyes pop and her lips droop, The Golden Arrow proves nothing more than that she is adept at nonchalance. Good shot: her proposal of marriage to George Brent while they hang upside down in a Ferris wheel...
...flight of gold, the anticlimax could not have been more complete. "Save the Franc." Whipping himself up, Socialist Boss Léon Blum burst into an oration designed to show up Premier Laval as at heart a blackshirt despite his lifelong affectation of pure white ties & shirts. Thundered scrawny, droop-mustached Boss Blum at the Radical Socialists: "Are you going to fall into the trap which is being laid for you? Are you going to quail before the double pressure of street riots and bank panics? "What has the Government done to assure the defense of our liberties?" roared...