Word: exoticism
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Flock Together. In Fort Lauderdale, Fla., cocktail lounge boss H. Greet sued the Miami Rare Bird Farm for $75,000 after 1) two parakeets he bought from the aviary "for Oriental atmosphere" died of parrot fever, 2) the county health department ordered his remaining 25 exotic birds destroyed, 3) his...
But one mystifying group of performers seems to have wandered into the wrong theatre: a wriggling quartet which calls itself "Kurt Jons and His Dancers," and which makes a half-hearted and misplaced attempt at some exotic Haitian dances.
The main portion of the picture takes place in exotic Tangier, the crossroads of international skullduggery, and Hope slinks through the Moroccan bazzaars with the grace of a three-footed panther. The whole things ends with a grand chise in the traditional W.C. Fields style.
Despite the exotic requests of some employers, "Placements is a little more than getting a job," says John W. Teele, the office's present director, and also the University's Director of Personnel. "Our idea of good placement is that it follows from the right kind of counselling. A possible...
Died. Fannie Ward, eightyish, the "perennial flapper" whose off-stage act of perpetual youth for more than half a century outshone her stage fame; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan. Born in St. Louis during the Andrew Johnson (or Grant) administration, Fannie made her stage debut in 1890, got off...