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...City Blues (Warner). A house detective foraging in a linen closet for his bottle of gin ... chorus girls in a hotel lobby to meet a friend's friend ... the elderly lady who sits alone in speakeasies, puffing a long cigaret holder ... a paper bag in the arm of a bootlegger, asleep on a sofa waiting to be paid . . . paraphernalia for a party, scattered across the top of a hotelroom table. . . . Shots like these, because they have the authentic flavor of one type of night-life in Manhattan, are what make Big City Blues an interesting picture...
Upon Don Miguel Cruchaga, Chilean Ambassador to the U. S., strolling to his Embassy in a white linen suit, came Mrs- Fred Albert Britten, wife of the Congressman. Chortled she: "Why, Mr. Ambassador, you look like a glass of milk...
...High Altar in Phoenix Park the people of Belfast gave a fine Irish linen altar-cloth. Four of the canopy bearers were to come from the north of Ireland where Protestants predominate. Many a Protestant looker-on was expected, if only to hear Tenor John McCormack, Papal Count, sing the Panis Angelicus of César Franck. In the Mass also was to figure the holy bell of St. Patrick which, old, rusty, looking much like a modern cowbell, can still jingle weakly...
...custom started by Edward VII. Flunkeys bring food, linen, silver from Buckingham Palace...
...take the consequences. That's all." This White House visitation prompted Rollin Kirby to produce for the New York World-Telegram a cartoon of the kind that made him famous: Mr. Hoover, hot and worried in his shirt sleeves, at an old fashioned tub scrubbing "Anti-Saloon Linen" while a severe old woman, her arms crossed, stands by to keep him at his job. Title: "Our Man!" ¶The temperature rose to 78° in Washington one day last week. The air-conditioning machine was turned on at the White House. ¶Thirty-five newspaper editors spent two hours...