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Hips, Hips, Hooray (RKO). "Frisby's Beauty Products" is another business enterprise in which girls sing, dance and tub. The opulent proprietress (Thelma Todd) and a pretty salesgirl (Dorothy Lee) meet two preposterous persons (Bert Wheeler & Robert Woolsey) who sell flavored lipstick. They dance a lively ballet in a stranger's office, plug a pleasant song: "Keep On Doin' What You're Doin.' " Admirers of the agonized smile of small Wheeler and the brisk dignity of cigar-chewing Woolsey will relish the automobile race which they win after a cyclone whirls them up into...
...Imperial Palace at Tokyo the cypress bathtub was prepared. To disperse the evil spirits loud plangent sounds were made by a general and three viscounts twanging bowstrings. A screen was set up behind the tub and behind the screen knelt Dr. Ichimura and Dr. Mikami -savants equivalent in Japan to the President of Harvard and the President of Yale. Into the tub went the Empire's nameless, seven-day-old Crown Prince (TIME, Jan. 1). While he was washed, the voices of the savants reading from ancient books were louder than the bowstrings. Clean after his first bath...
...Lowell House spy tells us that when Professor Julian Lowell Coolidge takes his Saturday night bath, he is entertained in the tub by a fleet of celluloid ducks. This sounds two good two be twue...
...friend tells us that he lived in Gore Hall in his Freshman year four years ago, and that his bathroom there was blessed with a real tub. The next year when his dormitory was incorporated into a House, he moved away, aspiring successfully to a garret underneath a floodlit spire. But he has missed his tub terribly; he has longed many times for the warm artificial pond wherein he used to read, write themes, sleep, invent refreshments and occasionally washed...
...that he paid $400 for his fine single suite, and that on returning to see his old diggings the next year he found that as a room in Winthrop House it now cost $440. Looking around carefully for improvements he found a new hot water tap on the tub, a new binge on the door, a stronger bulb in the chandelier--nothing more, nothing less...