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Once gaudy showplaces, seething with harlotry and fantastic crime, the Chinatowns of San Francisco, New York City, Boston, Chicago have had their splendor wiped away by police cleanup squads during a decade. Modern Chinatowns stand revealed as parts of the surrounding slums. Down their narrow streets busloads of thrill seekers trudge, disappointedly viewing Christian missions, Presbyterian churches, sack-suited U. S. Chinese. Only in curio-shops and such tourist centres do the sightseers glimpse a tawdry replica of the surroundings in which mandarins once paraded their gorgeous costumes on Chinese festival-days, in which painted, gold-spangled girls were sold...
...been the three-week ordeal. With their brothers Walter and Albert of the refueling plane, and Sister Irene who had cooked for them, and their 62-year-old mother, Mrs. Ida Hunter, the flyers were whisked to a roof-bungalow atop the Hotel Sherman, there to blink at unaccustomed splendor, to listen-dazedly to the bickerings of a half-dozen self-ordained managers, to rehearse a few lines for their week's vaudeville engagement, to try and reckon their rewards. Having reduced their expectations from $200,000 to half that sum, the Hunter family last week could count about...
...voters' bulletin. Excerpts: "You speculate on the practical uses of Lake Springfield. . . . The next afternoon you are inclined to loaf, take the trip over the Lake Springfield trail. . . . Climb into the family bus and hit the trail. . . . Linger through the evening. Watch the sun go down in purple splendor, and study the famous afterglow of Central Illinois, the benediction...
Garrick Gaieties. Their elders and betters having gone away for the summer and abandoned the neo-Andalusian splendor of the Theatre Guild's playhouse, the Bright Young People who occasionally perform under the Guild's aegis when a production of doubtful dignity is to be put on?e.g., Red Rust (TIME, Dec. 30)?set out to disport themselves in a blithesome intimate revue. Guild subscription members flocked to see, recalling that it was the first Garrick Gaieties (1925) which uncovered Composer Richard Rodgers and Lyricist Lorenz Hart ("Manhattan," "Sentimental Me," "April Fool"), Funnymen Romney Brent and Sterling Holloway...
...nights like this as the flesh. Squired by famed movie males these females dress in their sheerest best to attend the world premiere of a motion picture. Normally at a Hollywood opening only a handful of the really great attend. The rest cannot be bothered with the ghastly splendor of the ceremonies. But last week one and all turned out. They came in answer to the loudest, shrewdest ballyhoo ever raised in cinema's capital. Besides, they could ill afford to be absent. Admission, for the first time in Hollywood history, was $11 per ticket. They came, also...