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...papers are again full of news from Soviet Russia, whether through laxity of censorship or because the Russian authorities feel that they are now ready to show the world what they have accomplished, is not known. In the interim, while the United States and Europe devoted themselves to a fad of things Russian, such as the Chauve Souris, the former dominions of the Czar have been the scene of events of a more serious nature. That Moscow faces the approach of winter with a thieving, lawless swarm of two hundred and fifty thousand homeless children--the "wild boys", the products...
Ivory-white, lipstick-red, and a suave, tawny brown are the colors of Florence Jones. These were colors good enough for smart, expatriate Americans of both hemispheres who discovered "Florence" making excellent waffles in the Rue Pigale some four years ago. Her waffles became a fad, and so many rich waffle eaters washed the golden morsels down with amber champagne that, today, Florence Jones te more purseful than many of her clients. The fact that this handsome Negress, genuinely from Harlem, keeps the smartest boite de nuit* in Paris, was evident again last week, when His Royal Highness, 27-year...
Despatches told last week that Edward of Wales thus breakfasted several times during his last visit to Spain (TIME, May 9, 16), that he expressed keen relish each time, and members of his small personal set are taking up the fad...
...Author Carl Van Vechten, Caucasian, who took up Negroes as an esthetic fad, then pictured them as depraved, in a book full of Harlem dives, dope peddlers, degenerates...
...that the "Ask Me Another" craze is sweeping the country, books of Questionaires are coming out almost daily, the newspapers are running questions, and the fad has even invaded the CRIMSON, it is of interest to know that the idea is by no means...