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Death he dismissed as vigorously as sex. But he had a horror of earth burial, bought shares in crematoria, was thrilled by the artistic effect of their "twirling ribbons of soaring, garnet-colored flames." After his mother's cremation he "found [her] calcined remains . . . strewn on a stone table at which two men . . . looking exactly like cooks, were busily picking out and separating the scraps. ..." "Coal was very scarce," he said when his sister died, "and Lucy burnt with a steady white light...
Nancy Duncan turns in another of her excellent performances as Mrs. Garnet, the eccentric landlady who is never quite sure when her weird tenants are acting and when they're being themselves. For that matter, no one else is too sure about it either, which probably accounts for the good time the actors seem to be having playing their parts...
Claiming to know enough Harvard men "to put the average Yard cop to shame," modest "Pop" Garnet, 225 pound, 6 foot ticket-taker and bouncer at the Raymor Ballroom in Boston, last night celebrated his birthday by stating that his life-long ambition is to be on the University police force...
...Jones average of stockmarket prices hit an all-time high, was a scorcher from Nebraska to Maine. On the streets you could see a few back less dresses and bare legs, practically no tinted nails. Bobs were shingled in back, banged on brows, swept on cheeks. A man named Garnet Carter of Lookout Mountain, Tenn., got on a train for Miami, where he was to install the first Miniature Golf Course in Florida. Liberal weeklies were referring to John L. Lewis as an autocratic reactionary of Labor. Singin' in the Rain was a popular tune. The average price...
...Garnet de Bal (Marie Bell, Harry Baur, Franchise Rosay, Raimu; TIME, April...