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...Stewart McDonald, the Administrator of Federal Housing . . . has just returned from London and Paris, where he turned his Scotch soul loose on tweeds. . . . His new little 'café au lait' number is becoming, and brings out the fine, lovely quality of his camellia-like complexion. . . . I'm sending 'Eve's Apple' to certain people, so, Stewie, when you get home tonight, you'll find it waiting...
That one was the Hearstian tabloid Daily Mirror, recently put under the direction of Jacquin Leonard ("Jack") Lait, oldtime Hearst thrill-writer. Fortnight ago the Mirror began a six-part daily feature called "Fiorenza's Own Amazing Story." Authorship was credited to "John Fiorenza, as told to David B. Charnay, Mirror staff correspondent." Gist was that the upholsterer's assistant had nourished an unrequited but undiscouraged love for Mrs. Titterton, who had previously rejected his advances, but, as an aspiring writer, had not hesitated to "pump" him for "copy...
...taste is sufficiently high or sufficiently low the other part of this program ought to be a source of considerable enjoyment. The impressario-virtuoso. Mr. Calloway brings his well known midnight growls, quavers, and rhythm to Boston with the usual bevy of cafe au-lait skinned "danseuses" and hoofers who maintain that especial negro poker-face and stiff shoulders while their feet execute the most fantastic feats of time and space. All the performers get very hot de musico and de facto and the band fades out to the well known dirge of Minnie the Moocher leaving the audience...
...ball bounces far to the right, sometimes far to the left, and again most unexpectedly it may rebound into his own court. John Henry used similar tactics with Haiti's scheming politicians. To avoid even the appearance of militarism he wore civilian clothes. Through tall, thin, cafe-au-lait Louis Borno, John Henry kept tight rein on all Haitian legislation. Under him Haiti's internal and external debt was reduced to $14,000,000. He established eleven hospitals, 139 rural clinics to treat malaria, hookworm and yaws, built 1,000 miles of new roads, a half dozen...
...Sloan are introduced briefly; they represent the tradition of clean, wholesome sport. The picture was made during the Olympic Games at Los Angeles and it was therefore feasible for Paramount to persuade several real sportswriters to perform in it. Grantland Rice, Westbrook Pegler, Paul Gallico. Damon Runyon. Jack Lait appear momentarily, drinking coffee; Runyon speaks but Pegler is to be recognized only by his right out. In all this welter of authenticity, it is only natural for the story of Madison Square Garden to seem a little unreal by comparison. It is mainly about a young middleweight (Jack Oakie...