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...roof of Hollywood's Knickerbocker Hotel. Searchlights on top of nearby cinema houses fingered the rosy sky over Hollywood Boulevard. On the hotel roof, ignoring a milling throng of spiritualists, magicians, newshawks, cameramen and gawpers, a plump, white-haired woman walked down a length of red plush carpet on the arm of a bearded man. Beatrice Wilhelmina Rahner Houdini and her business manager, Magician Edward Saint, seated themselves on thronelike chairs before a red-draped table. On the table lay a silver bell, a trumpet, a pair of handcuffs, a small shrine containing a photograph of the late Harry...
...decorate this rural snuggery. 27 miles from London. Last week the taste of U. S.-born Mrs. Simpson and the talent of U. S.-born Lady Mendl scored heavily again when His Majesty, just before leaving on vacation, commissioned Elsie de Wolfe Inc. to sweep stuffy Victorianism and plush out of stately Buckingham Palace, redecorate its interior in swank Modern Style...
...they thought I was 'nutty' before, -this will be the pay off, when they see that I know it can't be done halfway. I can't sit comfortably on my plush pillows and tell others what to do to be happy, but I will be able to tell anyone anything, when I am able to meet them, eye to eye, on an equal footing. ... In case you think that's a phoney halo I'm trying to tie up on my bean, this is Elsie. I just want to be happy...
...late Samuel Lionel ("Roxy") Rothafel began a weekly broadcast called "Roxy and His Gang." Purpose was to promote the Capitol Theatre, huge Manhattan cinemansion of which Major Edward Bowes was part owner. In 1925, Rothafel left the Capitol to direct the new, plush-lined Roxy Theatre, took his "Gang" idea with him. The Capitol's program continued as "Major Bowes's Capitol Theatre Family," with Bowes acting as an unctuously friendly master of ceremonies in the Roxy manner. In 1934, a veteran at the microphone, Major Bowes began an "Amateur Hour" over New York's small Station...
...diamond in the eyes of the millionairess In the plush limousine SCRATCHED my eyes in passing...