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...Tried to ignore the clamoring, rioting unemployed but had to listen to their parliamentary champion, "Grandpa" George Lansbury, Leader of the Labor Party, who shouted, "I demand that the damnable 'means test'* be abolished and every man given a chance of decent existence...
Actually Mikimoto branches in Paris, London and Manhattan indicate that they are selling "cultured pearls," sell them for much less than the price of "real" Orientals.* In Japan spry Grandpa Mikimoto, 75, is the undisputed "Pearl King," purveys Mikimoto pearls to the Imperial Court. Speaking only Japanese and proud of his eccentricities, Pearl King Mikimoto loves to fete Occidental visitors to his pearl farm. First they are given baskets of Mikimoto oysters. Next Mikimoto minions open each guest's oysters, extract the pearls and present them to the guests, throw the oyster meat and shells away. Pearl King Mikimoto...
...Last week, no longer spat-wearing but still jovial, foxy-grandpa-esque, Cartoonist Young, 66, went to Manhattan from Danbury, Conn, where he had spent the winter, to tell about a new book he has written & illustrated. Forty years ago he did a book on Hell. Now he has revisited Hell, found and portrayed it as a high-class modern community, completely taken over by Capitalist Exploiters, with the Old Boy Himself relegated to the background by powers-behind-the-throne...
...story Old Man Minick. The chronicle of a quavering gaffer who never really enjoyed himself until he got to the Old Men's Home where he could play checkers with his cronies, had possibilities for the cinema which have been firmly overlooked. Minick (Sale) is a pigeonhole grandpa and the picture, mainly composed of watery pathos, has only one genuine sequence-when Sale upsets a club-meeting at his daughter-in-law's house by delivering homilies on the care and upbringing of small children...
...loth anniversary (next year) of Fascism's March on Rome to include "the greatest assemblage of armed forces that the Eternal City has seen for two milleniums!" Grandiose, this expansion took place at a session of the Fascist Grand Council in that intoxicating chamber at the Palazzo Yenezia, Grandpa Mussolini's "World Map Room...