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...Glass Slipper. Kitchen-Wench Irma, nude bather, kitten's wetnurse, joins a brothel when the Mr. Sipos whom she loves and serves marries another. Discovering his wife unfaithful, Mr. Sipos says, "I mayn't have an automobile, but I have honor." He casts off the wife, retrieves Irma...
...Darvas, who, starring in it, became a famed actress also. Enraged, Actress Fedak responded by getting Melchior Lengyel, Hungary's second greatest playwright, to write a play with a role in which she could and did show herself superior to Actress Darvas. Outraged, Molnar wrote Mima and The Glass Slipper, both for Actress Darvas. Upshot: a divorce (Molnar v. Fedak) in which Lili Darvas figured as but one of 142 correspondents. Beautiful Darvas became a national idol, Molnar's third wife...
...case last year, Arthur Weindorf, a piddling punster and an ugly draughtsman, was the worst offender. He depicted a woman leaning out of an upper berth in a pullman to whack a bald, bearded interloper with a slipper, and called it Birth Control...
...fond of plover eggs. He drank champagne from the slipper of Actress Pauline Markham, who had a "voice of velvet and the lost arms of Venus of Milo." He tried to drive a coach-and-four through the doorway of a Paris house, putting himself in the hospital for a month. Several times, in dead of night, he raced along the boulevards?stark naked in the driver...
...away proud tears, and Mayor Michael Landers of Lawrence, to give the stamp of civic authority. Twelve times the audience called her out in front of the great gold curtains, thundered its applause. Next day a typical story named her as "the latest American Cinderella to find her golden slipper there...