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...herself, is appalled when she learns that her mother, a divorcee whom she is visiting in Paris, is being kept by a wealthy Frenchman. When her fiance tells her about it she calls him a liar, neglects to apologize when she learns it is true. Before long a horrid scene occurs. Disgusted at her mother's apparently inveterate immorality, the daughter takes up with a rounder who parades his bad intentions. Her fiance breaks into a room where they are reveling, pushes the rounder (Monroe Owsley) in his smirking weasel face, carries Joan Crawford downstairs...
Queer People, by Authors Carroll & Garrett Graham, is a novel which satirizes Hollywood in almost libelous terms. Its horrid characters are drawn so plainly from life that they set Hollywood's hair on end. The hero is a drunken and unscrupulous libertine who, while performing ably as "professor"' in a sporting house, receives a splendid tip from a producer whose identity Hollywood sophisticates claim to know. The heroines of Queer People are insistently immoral and the scene of their depravities seems to combine the worst features of Sodom and Gomorrah. The uproar of Hollywood's bigwigs...
...fatness lay a million dollars in gold for the Argentine, automobiles for Montevideo, shirts, toys, plows and a consignment of machine guns for Paraguay. She also carried passengers and crew to the number of 400 souls. One of the last to leave the ship before she sailed was a horrid looking man with a skinless skull and grey cotton gloves, Captain Clendening's physician. He was the one who first noticed the ship was listing...
...Pennsylvania moved sad-eyed Governor Gifford Pinchot to appeal for Red Cross aid three weeks ago. American Red Cross Chairman John Barton Payne refused, regretted he could help only in disasters due to "act of God." Governor Pinchot sighed and went off fishing. The Press was full of horrid details of hungry Pennsylvania families awaiting eviction from squalid shacks; of small children, denied milk, eating dandelions...
...MELLON NOT BATHLESS" headlined the New York Times last week. What! thought readers, has Mr. Mellon been pictured as a dirty old man? Is this the correction of a horrid error? On the contrary, the story in error had redounded, if anything, entirely to Andrew William Mellon's hygienic credit. The Times had headlined that Mr. Mellon was "staying in old Hotel Bull which has no private bath." Indignant, the old Hotel Bull in Cambridge, England, so old that none knows when it was built, save that it was old enough to be rebuilt in 1546, protested that...