Word: rues
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...three months will the, horse chestnut trees on Paris' Champs-Elysees begin to turn yellow. Yet last week on the brief and severe Rue de la Paix autumn had already come. And on hand for its coming was an excited little army of U. S. dress buyers who crowded through closely-guarded doorways into the salons of the great Parisian couturiers. Inside the warm air was heavy with perfume and the smell of new silk. Buyers who usually paid $100 to get in (refunded on the first order) cocked their heads and adjusted their glasses as the sleek mannequins rustled...
...Parisians the excitement from the Etoile to the Rue de la Paix was an old story. As every fashion follower knows, there are two months in the year ? February and August ? when the couturiers throw open their shops to a select few to reveal in their "collections" what the best dressed women will wear during the next six months. Smaller midseason displays are held in April and November...
...time. Between them they have played all of the more awful whatnots and macabre personages of the past few years, Karloff in The Mummy, Frankenstein, The Mask of Fu Manchu, The Old Dark House and The Ghoul; Lugosi in Dracula, White Zombie, Chandu the Magician and Murders in the Rue Morgue...
...Watchdog De La Rue will pass over his duties to Haiti's National Bank and quit Haiti...
...Manhattan bankers. For two weeks Haiti's President Stenio Vincent tried to get a refunding loan of $11,000,000 so that he could pay off Haiti's present U. S. bondholders and rid his little republic of the U. S.'s watchdog, Sidney De La Rue. Financial Adviser-General Receiver of Haitian Customs. But the bankers wanted De La Rue on the spot to protect the refunding loan too. President Vincent had gotten exactly nowhere last week when he left Manhattan for Washington...