Word: fakes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago Exhibitor Florence B Ilch got a telegram that said: "Your son died this morning." Mrs. Ilch fainted beside her collies at the Westminster Kennel Club show; later learned that her son was alive and well, that the telegram had been a fake. This year Exhibitor Madeline Frank's collie, Black Pirate, lay down on his bench, vomited, and after a convulsion of his sleek body, ruffled with white at the chest, closed his eyes and died. Exhibitor Frank said she was sure he had been poisoned. Aside from this incident the show went on with proper dignity...
...Fake Alps. In Switzerland, sensitive students attended a performance of a U. S. film entitled King of the Bernina, discovered that the advertised Swiss scenes were really taken in Alaska. Enraged at the artificial Alps, they paraded the streets of Zurich, forced the theatre manager to stop showing the film...
Egyptian Brooders. Although the dynastic Egyptians lacked artificial light with which modern poulterers perform fake sunrises to make their hens lay overtime, they used incubators to hatch out eggs. The old time hatcheries were cone-shaped mud huts heated by burning chaff. An attendant always sat within to warn against temperature too hot or too cold. Of a clutch 95% hatched successfully. William D. Mann, U. S. assistant commercial attache at Cairo, found out about the ancient Egyptian brooders when he was seeking an Egyptian market for the latest type of U. S.-made incubators...
...willing to be come popeyed, collected at the flood lighted theatre entrance. By 9 p. m. those on the curb and those in boxes had seen Marion Davies (white satin and ermine), Lila Lee (green velvet and chin chilla), Billie Dove (satin, orchids, ermines) pass through the entirely fake Chinese portals of the Fox-owned cinepalace. At 10 p. m. the picture began...
...climax of the action. It is all about a timid novelist who, as the author of a work on aviation, has to go up in a plane for the first time in his life. In The Hottentot, Edward Everett Horton, able farceur of this piece, was a fake jockey whom the horses frightened more than anything else in the world. The Aviator is a rewrite of The Hottentot and Horton works his familiar comic business into it without many additions but fairly effectively. Patsy Ruth Miller looks pretty, talks agreeably. Best shot: arranging the contest between the novelist...