Word: locales
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...peones in cinema costumes-huge hats and white shirts, usually with the Mexican eagle and serpent embroidered on the bosom-and armed to the teeth. I wanted a photograph of one of these groups, but the 'evangelist' promptly stopped me. The laws in Mexico today forbid photographing local types and costumes that make the country look to foreigners as if it were theatrical and out of date...
Through quaint and Alpine Salzburg, in Austria, prowled last week a Manhattanite with a tiny cinema camera. While local mountaineers gawked he accosted a honey-haired Diana, persuaded her to pose before a crazily swung gate, "shot" Maria Jeritza...
...city of Mantua, famed citadel of sturdy Etruscans, the local Fascist Prefect issued a well-pondered order last week: "For the remainder of the present summer all males in the Province of Mantua are forbidden to dance in public. This order has been promulgated for hygiene and moral reasons...
...Barnum, the General repeatedly toured Europe, became famous in Manhattan as a midget man-about-town who could afford to keep his own ocean-going yacht. "Tamed" by his "dearest Lavinia," Tom Thumb settled down at Middleboro, ordered built for her the house which straightway became a local show place...
...Treasure Island open on the dresser, Higbie had difficulty disentangling his feet from his pant-legs without taking his eye from the page. He ceased trying and the snarl lay about his bony ankles, his shirttails waving free, until the book was finished. Kendrick Glasby, star reporter of the local daily, upon whose stalwart young person was concealed a sere little volume in calf called Histoire des Pirates Anglois, with a marker at the tale of fearless Mary Read, entered the gathering whirl of events through another card of Hiltonshurley Moggs, thrown away by a thirsty rumdum to whom...