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...Exposition city has its own transportation system, since no private vehicles larger than baby carriages are permitted. Open buses and small motorized carriages constitute the ground transport. Cable cars carry tourists above the Fair. And the Expo has its own "heliport" for aerial sight-seeing and heliocopter service to Amsterdam, Paris and other European cities...
...acquaintances, who had developed a studied indifference to his talk of crusades, "expo-ZAYS" and threats, the wonder was that anyone had wasted a bullet on Kasherman. He was a man of thin face and slickly pompadoured black hair, a police station hanger-on, petty racketeer and blackmailer, who once did a two-year penitentiary stretch for a $25 shakedown of a whoremistress. His Public Press was a newspaper only by the utmost professional courtesy: it came out intermittently, whenever Kasherman could find someone to smear and someone to pay him for it; it was full of black-inked diatribes...
...night of the trouble: Lady Cleone Meredith (Elissa Landi) ; her fortune-hunting fiance, Louis Chichester (Basil Sydney); her fop of a brother (Hugh Williams) and a lady who had been her fiancé's mistress. The freeing of Barty Sr., the winning of Cleone and the expo sure of the thief who stole a fortune in pearls and banknotes from Lady Cleone's grandfather is accomplished by some highly literate dramaturgy by Clemence Dane, some handsome snuff-taking by Fairbanks Jr., some capital period studies, including: 1) a bare-knuckle prizefight; 2) a Court cotillion; 3) a jailbreak...