Word: seeing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Marion makes Topper follow his wife to the French Riviera. There, appearing and disappearing with clocklike regularity, she plays tricks with Topper's headgear (see cut), cheats at roulette, removes a pair of bathing trunks from Mrs. Topper's gigolo, and in a climactic scene disappears from a ballroom floor, leaving Topper to dance a sudden solo...
...Danse dans un Pavilion de Jardin (see cut), painted about 1718, is one of the famous Fêtes Galantes of Watteau's maturity. Watteau ran away from home, did hack work, was rescued by rich friends, resented their kindnesses, died young (37) of tuberculosis. But he lived in Paris in a graceful period and reflected its graces...
...Manchester Assizes in the case of Smith v. Hall & Pickles. For her fright, Mrs. Smith won ?2,500, assessed against Hall & Pickles and Mr. Cunliffe of Droylsden, since both were found equally responsible for the motor crash. Unless the decision is upset on appeal, the future may well see frightened British bystanders by the hundreds seeking nerve balm after every motor bump in Britain...
Philadelphia's rusty Mayor S. (for Sam) Davis Wilson loves to see his name in print -except on the soon-quashed indictment whose 49 counts last September charged him with misdoings in office. He has even had his name blazoned on the city's trash baskets. In 1936 he began spending $7.000,000 of city and WPA money for an airport at Hog Island in the Delaware River marshes southwest of town-a field to be named S. Davis Wilson Airport...
...similar trend in France, see...