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...stern critics of the cinema Coney Island will be just one more tin bead on the rope Hollywood never ceases to string. But cinemaddicts who pay to get in will go easier on it; in fact they will go for it. Many cheap baubles have lovely sides in certain lights: this one shines irresistibly in such scenes as a brawl in a Coney harem. Here all the succulent paraphernalia of 1905 eroticism get heaved about in fearful confusion-carved brass hookahs caught in ripped gauze, brocaded draperies from the mysterious East, feathers and chandeliers, pillows of plush and satin, even...
...ammonia gas, etc., and eliminating oxygen, water vapor and carbon dioxide. But the lithium system provides a neutral atmosphere so simple to handle that little skill is needed. Air and fuel gas are automatically circulated, picking up lithium vapor from a small, renewable cartridge about the size of a tin cup, which lasts for eight hours. As long as the exhaust gas burns with the bright scarlet flame characteristic of the spectrum of lithium salts, any workman not color-blind can see that the furnace is working properly...
...before she was entirely restored; Navy "Seabees" rode along from the base and were still hard at work patching when she started sending her planes into action. In the final round of the Solomons battle last November, the torpedo bombers caught a Kongo-class battleship, slapped it with six tin fish and left it dead in the water...
Divorced. Henry Junkins ("Bob") Topping Jr., 28, lion-shooting tin-plate heir ($9,000,000) ; and Latin-eyed Gloria ("Mimi") Baker Topping, 23, Bromo-Seltzer heiress ($10,000,000); after four years of marriage (his second); in Palm Beach. She got custody of Sandra Emerson Topping, 3, and Henry Junkins Topping...
...lovely, flower-scented early Black Sea summer, the season when in the old days the nobility, in the new days the people of Russia had taken their vacations along that coast. Voyetekhov gives a paradisal picture of the peace he left behind him in the Caucasus: "Beside whitewashed, tin-roofed houses, on cottage chairs under cherry trees, were sitting the most beautiful Russian women-Kuban Cossacks." Voyetekhov went into Sevastopol aboard a destroyer at night, finding the half-wrecked city in flames. Milling around the dock were women & children whom the destroyer was to evacuate when it had unloaded...