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...heyday of Dixieland and Prohibition, Chicago Gangster Dion O'Banion, the sparetime florist, used to stuff dollar bills in the bell of Muggsy's horn while he was playing. ("The more he stuffed, the sweeter the music got.") Like many another jazzbo, Muggsy drifted out of jazz into the bigger money. There were eight years with Ted Lewis' band-until "I just got tired of playing When My Baby Smiles at Me." As with many another jazzbo, there were spectacular years with John Barleycorn, until Muggsy wound up "dying" of a perforated ulcer in New Orleans...
...complex substance that puts the green in grass, has been used for years to take cooking smells out of the kitchen. Occasionally it has been used to make putrefying wounds less obnoxious to patients and nurses. But until 1945 nobody thought of using it to make healthy people smell sweeter, inside & out. Nothing was farther from the mind of Dr. F. (for Franklin) Howard Westcott, a New York City internist, when he started giving chlorophyll to his patients...
That was Manager Fisher's explanation. A little harder to explain was the fact that the second-night audience was just as hostile. Lifar himself was not talking. But if revenge was what Lifar's friends were looking for, they found it even sweeter in the reaction of Paris ballet critics. In the press next day, they did their share of booing and catcalling, too. Wrote one: "Frankie and Johnny . . . was a disaster, a monstrous exhibition ... in the worst of German taste...
Science Service revealed yesterday that most manufacturers have been adding powdered saccharine--200 times sweeter than sugar--to their current lipstick offerings. Just a little powder--it can be balanced on a pinhead--gives enough of a boost to each stick...
Thereafter, as Margaret and Dean get sweeter, the hokum gets thicker and the film duller. Together with a little Yorkshire lad (Brian Roper), they discover a mysterious walled-up garden and start remaking it into a brilliantly Technicolored bower. They also succeed in reclaiming crusty old Herbert Marshall for a sunny, tear-washed finale...