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...Havre for a winter overhaul. Largest, fastest, most luxurious ship on the Europe-to-South America run, the Atlantique was almost new, had made only ten Atlantic round trips. She boasted "The Only Street Afloat," a thoroughfare 450 ft. long in the ship's belly. Down this mimic Rue de la Paix wealthy Brazilians, Argentinians and Chileans have strolled to buy in smart ship shops every French luxury imaginable, including swank motor cars. Last week the fire, starting in an unoccupied first-class cabin, swept up to the radio room, roared down to destroy the Rue de la Paix...
...Modern Art last week called in the assistance of the American Institute for Persian Art & Archaeology. Between them they presented potent evidence in an exhibit of reproductions of 17th Century Persian frescoes which one Sarkis Katchadourian has spent two years laboriously copying in gouache on paper, reproductions which mimic exactly the patches of new plaster, the splatter of the original frescoer's brush. As in Paris, where the reproductions were first exhibited, critics were amused to note that painters apparently copied Marie Laurencin and Henri Matisse in the 17th Century. It seemed likely that the Institute for Persian...
Marriage Revealed, Elsie Janis Bierbower (Elsie Janis), 42, retired actress, mimic, "Sweetheart of the A.E.F."; and one Gilbert Wilson, 26; in Tarrytown, N. Y. For U. S. troops she gave 610 one-girl shows in France during the War. Said she: "Well, I've never had a child. Now I have a husband and?a child...
When the assembled air fleet visits New England in a demonstration of mimic defense next Monday, it will be over the protests of a disorganized and heterogeneous minority. Some have objected on pacifistic grounds, others on grounds of health, namely the annoyance, if not danger, to patients ill in hospitals. And among other groups, there is one which voices its disapproval at the spending of so large a sum during a period of national depression...
Exposition, Although not complete when opened (few expositions are), that at Buenos Aires last week was a most creditable performance. Featured was British transport apparatus of all sorts: cars, motorboats, planes, railway equipment. English jam, rolls, chocolate, pickles and crackers were also prominent. Wondering South Americans strolled through a "mimic London," admired the Tower, London Bridge, and something called "A Bit of Piccadilly...