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...Wagon Mound, N. M., it was Friday evening, Sabbath eve for Charles Geist, tailor, and Joe Lowenthal, haberdasher, Orthodox Jews of Paterson, N. J. They were motoring to Los Angeles where they hoped to start in business. Their cult forbids traveling on the Sabbath. They stopped over at Wagon Mound. That Friday night Charles Geist dreamed that he was dead. So moved was he that next morning he broke another Sabbath law. He wrote his wife Gussie of his morbid dream. A few hours later a tornado swept through Wagon Mound, killed...
...first farm machinery, then insurance, went broke running a garage. Now he has a chauffeur, a cabin in the San Jacinto Mountains, can make up like Douglas Fairbanks. He dresses foppishly, is fussy about his household arrangements, prefers maids to men servants. Some of his other pictures were A Tailor Made Man, Behind That Curtain, Romance of the Rio Grande...
...check up of the various clothing stores in town here revealed that approximately 800 pairs of short pants had been sold already. The more colorful of the men today, however, did not appear in tailor mades but in basketball pants, slashed off filannels, and khaki Boy Scout shorts...
...customary, Tailor & Cutter, London's sartorial trade sheet, reviewed the clothes painted by artists upon their subjects. "The collar seam is incorrect, the sleeve is a catastrophe!" railed Tailor & Cutter at Sir William Orpen's portrait of Architect Guy Dawber. "Alas, all of Sir William's sleeves are wrong this year...
...wards) has its private bath, its individual refrigerator. Rugs, chintz curtains and pastel-tinted walls give a cozy atmosphere. All beds are of wood. All medical and surgical equipment are of course the most modern and efficient. Patient-guests have at their convenience a barber shop, tailor, florist, public stenographer, telegraph office, newspaper & magazine stand, drugstore, gymnasium, library, solarium, a roof garden, restaurant, lounge rooms, private reception rooms...