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...stick that make modern movie comedy look like a first-class funeral. The first includes Buster Keaton, Alice Faye, an unnamed villain, and an apparently limitless supply of creamy custard pies. There is a certain emotional release about a custard pie flying through the air destined for some carefully made-up face. It is a shame that the idea has been abandoned, for many modern pictures might be livened up immeasurably with the sudden appearance of a custard pic in flight. The second scene involves the Keystone cops and a 1913 Ford. The glorious, lusty pantomime of the whole scene...
...folks think, this autumn there is no election. Some wandered up to the press-galleries to sit in a last pitch-game with newshawks and cameramen, chipping in to send a boy across the plaza for a bottle. Some went directly to Union Station, where wives awaited them on made-up trains. And some took time to total up the spirited 76th's box score: found that this Congress had defied Franklin Roosevelt's will twelve times, knuckled under only four times. Also, the "economy" Congress had appropriated more than $13,000,000,000-most in history...
...spear-carriers. The small, patient, well-scrubbed elephant of Aïda was present once more, figured also in Tom-Tom. In Die Walkure there were not the usual nine but 17 Valkyries galloping over the mountain. Brünnehilde's eight new sisters were given made-up. Wagnerian-sounding names like "Ritthelle." "Kampfsiege," "Trautschilde." There were real gas flames, 10 to 40 ft. high, for the Magic Fire scene. In Die Walküre sang Soprano Elsa Alsen, Basso Fred Patton. Tenor Georg Fassnacht Jr. from the Freiburg Passion Play. In Aïda were Tenor Paul Althouse...
DAVID GOES VOYAGING-David Binney Putnam-Putnam ($1.50). Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were "made-up" boys. David Putnam is a real one, aged 12, and besides he went thousands of miles on the ocean (with Deep-Sea-Explorer William Beebe, to Panama and the Galapagos Island) and had a lot of modern tackle and interested grown-ups to fish with and collect birds' eggs, turtles, lizards, bugs, beetles and even scorpions. He saw sharks and devilfish, albatrosses and penguins, sea lions and octopuses. He helped dig buried treasure and played pirate on desert islands at the Equator...
...some huge amount of money owed by the de parted Banker Almy to his (Sandoval's) colleagues, erstwhile rebels in the captured city of New Orleans. They had, it would appear, hatched a plot to ship over to France certain financial inducements to some of the feminine harpies "with made-up titles," who surround Louis Napoleon, to persuade that calloused monarch to bestir himself in the cause of the Confederacy. They had collected some $250,000, much of it in honest English and French gold, had entrusted it to a shipping agent for transfer to France via the New York...