Word: faked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Food & Fun. On their second night at Atlantic City the Governors frolicked at a big "Circus Fun-Fest" in the Hotel Traymore's main dining room, which was decorated like a circus tent, overrun with clowns, fake policemen, a menagerie of men in animal skins and three brass bands. All guests sported gaudy paper hats and the Governors wore huge paper-plate buttons identifying them as their State's "big shot" (see cut). Connecticut's 75-year-old Wilbur ("Uncle Toby") Cross beamed on a pretty "gypsy girl," who escorted a "polar bear" on a leash. When...
Ultimately the picture he has acted in sets cinemaddicts atremble, but Terry Rooney has already thought himself a failure, married Rita, and fled to the South Seas. Returning a famous man, he signs a contract obliging him to fake bachelorhood for seven years. The strain tells first on Rita, who returns to Manhattan, second on Terry, who has been linked to Stephanie (Mona Barrie), the studio siren, in publicity gossip. A large plane winging eastward shows Terry on his way back to Rita, the band and Manhattan. Another good man has broken through the lucred shams of Hollywood...
...artists who have been aware for twenty years of the vigor of African Negro sculpture-so aware that their camp followers have made fetish figures fashionable and thereby encouraged Paris ateliers to fake them by the carload-the Lips book will have value in clarifying the historical background of an unassimilated artistic influence and indicating the future possibilities of its assimilation. Professor Lios insists that all analogies between genuine primitive art and the drawings or modelings of children are unsuccessful. Savage kingdoms in Africa and the South Seas, for example, developed through settled centuries a mastery of their native materials...
...Modern Woodmen had their first and only crisis. After a scandal started when $3,000 was paid to a fake claimant, Founder Root was deposed, formed the rival order of Woodmen of the World, which now has assets of $116,000,000, insurance in force of over $415,000,000. Modern Woodmen dwarfs its younger rival, however. Today it has 10,000 lodges in 46 States and four Canadian provinces. Only Missouri and Massachusetts spurn it. Membership has been as high as 1,182,756, is now about 500,000. More than $545,000,000 has been paid to beneficiaries...
...continual reappearance of a man from the We Never Sleep Collection Agency who is trying to repossess a typewriter, an elk's head which the director loyally refuses to pawn and two stuffed owls. There are also a frantic and shirtless stage manager, a great penultimate fake deathbed scene which keeps Miller and almost everyone else from being taken to jail for fraud and forgery. Critical consensus is that Room Service will be notable for long life as well as long laughs...