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Among places to go to, beside the Streets of Paris, are these: The Pirate Ship, which vulgar "Texas" Guinan left in disgust last week; the vast Old Manhattan Gardens, where the girls wear nothing but silver paint; Old Mexico, where some more employes of C. C. Pyle do the rumba; the Days of '49, which had very friendly dance hall girls at first...
...famed old Police Gazette, pink-covered journal of sports news and chorus girls' pictures, fell victim to the Depression. In its 88 years it had passed through a variety of incarnations, beginning as "a most interesting record of horrid murders, outrageous robberies, bold forgeries, astounding burglaries, hideous rapes, vulgar seductions. . . ." It "crusaded against vice" with marvelous and explicit gusto. Under the administration of the late Richard Kyle Fox, who bought the Gazette in 1876, it gained fame as an arbiter and promoter of sporting events, and was such a fixture in barber shops that it was called "The Barber...
...famed old Police Gazette, pink-covered journal of sports news and chorus girls' pictures, fell victim to the Depression. In its 88 years it had passed through a variety of incarnations, beginning as "a most interesting record of horrid murders, outrageous robberies, bold forgeries, astounding burglaries, hideous rapes, vulgar seductions. . . ." It "crusaded against vice" with marvelous and explicit gusto. Under the administration of the late Richard Kyle Fox, who bought the Gazette in 1876, it gained fame as an arbiter and promoter of sporting events, and was such a fixture in barber shops that it was called "The Barber...
...what she thought was folly, is very good indeed, uniting to those charms with which she was endowed at birth, a certain undeniable talent for carrying off the comic situation. As for the story itself, it demonstrates that while the comedy of intrigue is not necessarily heavy-handed or vulgar in the movies, it is a very different genre from what goes under the name on the stage. "Pleasure Cruise" goes some way towards being a happy resolution of the difference; it has the scenic and technical advantages of the photoplay, without losing the grace and quiet effectiveness...
Cyrus Curtis did not go into the newspaper business until he had amassed a vast fortune from the Saturday Evening Post and other magazines. The advertising solicitors of his newspapers have loudly argued that the Record is "vulgar . . . with no quality, no class circulation." But the ultimate in Philadelphia quality and "class" is Mrs. George Horace Lorimer, wife of the chief executive of Mr. Curtis' magazines. Unsuspecting, she had given her picture and endorsement to Judith Jennings, the Record's vivacious society editor...