Word: hindoo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dark Skins or La Jac Orange Beauty Glow Cream are skin foods or skin whiteners; that other of its products eliminate wrinkles; that La Jac Brite Skin Bleach will overnight, or in any stated time, make the skin five shades lighter or that Lucky Mojo, Good Luck Incense, Hindoo Mystic Love Perfume, Holy Oil with Live Loadstone or High John the Conqueror Root and other similar products bring good luck, love, romance, power, life, inspiration, easy money or irresistibility...
...record was not improved by a performance of Delibes' Lakmé. New Conductor Maurice de Abravanel tortured this suave, tuneful music into Wagnerian thunder. Vina Bovy, cast as the Hindoo maid, remained Vina Bovy and gave little support to Basso Leon Rothier who made Nilakantha piteous with his fits of love and fury. Not till the middle of the week brought a competent Aïda and a warm, vivid Faust in French did critics feel confidence in Director Johnson's French & Italian wings...
...HINDOO HOLIDAY-J. R. Ackerley-Viking...
...Author Ackerley served throughout the War, ended it a Captain. After taking a degree at Cambridge University, he took up with the stage, played in Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra, produced in 1925 a play of his own, The Prisoners of War, since published in book form. Hindoo Holiday is his second book...