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...boys in the back room were thinking ahead. The Fifth District, taking in Kansas City's "silk stocking" South Side, has never been a Democratic stronghold. The Boss's slap at Slaughter was irrevocable; with the Democrats split into factions, the Republican candidate might easily win in November...
French Fashion. The17th Century was the Golden Age of the enema, or clyster as it was then called. The crude instruments of yesteryear-tubes of bone or wood attached to animal bladders or silk bags-were replaced by a formidable piston-&-cylinder device. An apothecary or doctor's assistant, marching through the streets with a clyster tube on his shoulder (see cut), became a common sight, as a mania for enemas swept France...
Died. Major Edward Bowes, 71, whose carefully rehearsed, silk-smooth "Original Amateur Hour" (with the trademarked gong and the Major's unctuous "All right -all right") once had 20,000,000 faithful fans, and brought him nationwide fame & fortune; after long illness; in Rumson...
...first postwar productions to splurge on lavish, prewar-style props, the picture was shot over five acres of lot covered with $300,000 worth (pressagents' valuation) of Oriental rococo background. Notable eye-filling items: the King's four gold-&-diamond crowns ($84,000) and 23 silk-&-brocade costumes ($23,000); a coronation scene costing $80,000; a well-filled harem stocked with the loveliest of 200 lovely extras; Linda Darnell in the Siamese equivalent of a sarong...
...Fernando who talks like a Communist. "I knew Trotsky in Vienna," Farkas tells him; "I didn't like his accent and the way he played chess. I regard Communists with the same suspicion as Jesuits." Farkas laughs, takes off his monocle and wipes it with his silk handkerchief. The Italian seems to be a friendly, good-humored fellow. All Farkas wants is the friendly, good-humored world he has always known. The Italian reminds him that such a world no longer exists, that for some people it never existed. Farkas shrugs his shoulders, smokes his cigar, drinks the rich...