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This'll Make You Whistle (Cam & McLane). British musical comedy, directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Jack Buchanan, chiefly noteworthy for a stubborn, Cockney prankishness calculated to cause U. S. audiences not to whistle but to squirm...
What it takes to be fashionable is what Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, 33-year-old son of a London coal & lumber merchant, possesses in a degree so extreme as to make plain people squirm. To the fastidious world of Mayfair, however, Photographer Beaton's delicate infusions of the cockeyed into the swank have long seemed divine. After a gala summer, including a trip to Cande to make exclusive portraits for Vogue of his friend the Duchess of Windsor and a visit to his friend Mrs. Harrison ("Best Dressed") Williams at her villa on Capri, slim Cecil Beaton...
...forthright way Mexican goat-shearers shear goats. A goat is taken, brusquely by the scruff of its neck and thrown to the ground. The shearer holds it down with his knee while he clips its belly. Patient old goats who have outgrown their tick-lishness lie still; young goats squirm. The goat's four feet have meanwhile been bunched together and tied. The shearer clips as much of its back as he can reach, flops it over like a griddle cake, clips the rest. As the rapacious electric clipper slides over its head and down its nose even...
...with alum did some good in preventing infantile paralysis. Half-a-dozen teams operated in Omaha last week. These teams soon found that metal tipped atomizers are apt to Injure the nostrils of young children, who jerk and sneeze when treated. Children of ten to twelve don't squirm so much. In general, however, the method is still too bothersome and unproved for most doctors and parents to attempt, unless Dr. Peet, as he is trying to do, invents a flexible-tipped atomizer. Recent expert opinions on the question...
...place to which admission is charged. This restriction, however, may not help musicians much because few saloons, roadhouses, poolrooms charge admission, or even employ musicians. In the more important matter of sending canned music over the air, the musicians and record men reached an agreement which made radiomen squirm. Under terms not made public last week, broadcasters will have to pay considerably larger fees to use records on programs, the increase presumably to be passed on to the musicians in increased record royalties...