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...jointly, live quietly with their mother, Mrs. Hannah Goldstein, in a neat, red brick apartment building overlooking St. Paul's Langford Park. Their small apartment is carefully decorated according to the rules in Art in Everyday Life. Even their hobbies are collaborative: taking pictures with Leica cameras, making pewter plates and hand-printed draperies. To University of Minnesota home economists their prim, judicious maxims are cultured pearls of wisdom. Samples...
Newly signed by M-G-M for Maisie, Cinemactress Sothern shed the glad rags and phoney attitudes of her new-rich cinema past, became her North Dakota self. As Maisie, she is a healthier Jean Harlow, an untarnished Mae West. Whether she can keep her natural pewter shine is a question. Her next scheduled venture: How to Get Tough...
Counterfeit dimes and quarters are being circulated around the Square in large quantities, it was learned yesterday. Local merchants report that they have been deceived by the authentic look of the coins which are made of pewter...
...been a reader of mystery stories he would never have guessed, on entering the deserted inn, that a robbery had just taken place there. He would not have been able to find Reginald Owen, Lillian Bond, and Dudley Digges tied in a closet and the stolen jewels in a pewter pot from which he removed them, leaving his visiting card...
...abstract painters and technical experimenters are rapidly vanishing. Most present-day artists are now concerned with such Americana as lynching, unemployment, militarism, middle-class stupidity, lower-class squalor. Dozens of able artists have in 1934 found bread lines and burlesque shows more interesting than bunches of zinnias in a pewter vase...