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...wonder if all our English visitors must recite that carry on tale about the frogs in the cream vat and the pat of butter. Here Cosmo Hamilton repeats it (TIME, May 4). I heard that English-Aesop fable delivered during the War by an English clergyman spouting to the Catholic Actors Guild. But the reverend gentleman said the two that hopped into the cream were mice, not frogs. A frog wouldn't die in cream, would he or she? Unless she or he ate till he or she sank? A mouse would drown...
...Angkor Vat French publicity, with a few potent exceptions, is the world's worst. "Wembley" was on every man's tongue before the British Empire Exposition opened (TIME, Aug. 4, 1924) and colossally failed.? By contrast the awkwardly named Exposition des Arts Decor atijs at Paris in 1925 was almost a secret at the time, yet it touched off the bombshell of Modernistic Art, gave furniture and architecture a whirl that is dizzying people yet. So atrocious is French publicity that a broadside recently fired in English by the Ministry of Colonies begins with this sentence...
...size and importance all other manifestations held in any country, will take place this year in Paris." This statement, ludicrous as a patent medicine label, happens to be almost true. This week the French Empire stands in Paris. As an example of what has been amazingly done, the Angkor Vat (Temple of Angkor), probably the most intricate wonder of the Far East, a vast pyramid of architecture covering three and a half acres and embellished with miles of carved figures, has been reproduced in Paris, not as a model but full size, at a cost...
...been charmed, massaged, initiated, ordered to take ''treatments," scraped about the ears, hexed, advised to leave the country, psychoanalyzed, fiddled with by medicine men, gypsies, witches, etc., etc. When put upon the trail of a suspect, Otto Fichl uses his native German accent, saying "I vunder vat is der trouble." Stupid in appearance, equipped with a worker's badge, it is his business to be the dupe of any faker. After paying "Dr." Kejna $5 for telling him that he needed $168 worth of dentistry, Otto Fichl became worried, visited a reputable dentist...
Into a vacuum vat he introduced his bacteria, shredded copra, powdered limestone, water. After keeping the temperature at 50° C. for six days he uncapped the vat, found oil floating on the top of the mixture...