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...Edward Horton compete for honors in the comic relief, and the verdict goes to the former. An hospitable divorce, living on alimony, Mr. Herbert always cashes his guests' checks, but has a "No Funds" stamp of his own to save him the trouble of going to the bank. The plaster on his little farmhouse was somewhat cracked, "but it reflects my personality. Whoo-whoo...
...victim. By last week the raid of 1919 had ended well for all concerned: Writer Alexander had received $1,500 from the Satevepost; 90-lb. Buddy Alexander, after two excruciating spinal operations and a blood transfusion from his father, was in a Manhattan hospital, encased in 125 pounds of plaster, grinning and beginning a recovery scheduled to take a year; and the ex-Kaiser was still safe in Holland...
...first-nighters found they had paid for was a comedy written with a stylish stylus, a mort of Jovian musing, some heavy-handed Olympian plotting-and the Lunts. Just as all but the extremely myopic soon discovered that the display of buttockry in the startling opening set was a plaster hoax, so none but the most zealous Lunt-Fontanne champions found Amphitryon 38 the perfect play...
...While touring the Spanish front last spring, Actor Flynn was reported wounded by a machine-gun bullet. Prosaic truth was that he was hit on the head by falling plaster, knocked unconscious for four hours. Warner Brothers, piqued at the press reports, threatened to assign Actor Flynn a public relations counselor. *The real Bagdad is on the famed Tigris River. *While the picture was in making last August, the magic carpet fell with a vengeance, killing two workmen, injuring two others (TIME, Sept...
...opening, every table was reserved in advance. Crowds pressed against the windows, gaped in as waiters moved among the customers, arms bobbing, chorusing "Heil Hitler." Peeved with the good German burghers who pestered him with questions about Brother Adolf, Alois next day called in a sign painter, had him plaster in German script across one wall; "Sup di duhn und fret didick und holl din mul von politik." ("Drink a lot and eat a lot but don't talk politics...