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...Santa Cruz, Calif, hills, George Spray called a convention of nudists at his Elysium Foundation. Three hundred and ninety appeared. Rival Nudist James F. Curl, who had called his convention for two weeks later, belittled Nudist Spray's convention, saying that some of the delegates had been seen wearing pants. Sneered he, "A nudist wearing pants is no nudist at all. He should be shaken from orthodox ranks...
Scornfully replied Nudist Spray, ''They're just sore because our meeting precedes theirs by two weeks. I didn't invite Curl here anyway. I am going to organize the Western Nudists' Alliance. We'll have more people here than Curl will have at six of his conventions...
...Plaza across from Union Station. Last February aged Art Dealer Francis D. Healy, chairman of the Municipal Art Commission, first saw clay models of Sculptor Milles' Wedding of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers reproduced in LIFE, grumbled that the fountain group would be better named "Wedding in a Nudist Colony." Commissioner Hubert Hoeflinger, onetime tailor, agreed that the Milles tritons should be trousered. Awarded a contract in April 1936, and warmly supported by other members of the Commission, Sculptor Milles worked on serenely in Detroit last week while a St. Louis Star-Times poll of public opinion showed...
...Stiffkey" (pronounced Stewkey); after being attacked by a lion; at Thompson's Amusement Park, Skegness, Lincolnshire, England. Since his unfrocking for unministerial relations with prostitutes, Mr. Davidson had kept in the limelight by appearing at a suburban movie house, exhibiting himself in a barrel, being ejected from a nudist camp. His last exploit, lion-taming, ended when during the course of his act he accidentally trod on the toe of a lioness whose mate leaped at him, mortally mauled him before his 16-year-old girl assistant could come to the rescue...
...worry about and were not likely to take any action that might jeopardize anyone's business or job, during the early 1930's the U. S. entertainment business entered upon a period of license equaled only in Europe. The films got broad and bare. Fan dancers, "nudist colonists" and other female exhibitionists were responsible for the gay success of world's fairs at Chicago, San Diego and Dallas. The fair girls vanished with the autumn and the Legion of Decency rectified the films. But burlesque in New York City suffered no brake except Commissioner Moss...