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...Idea: Black and silver, mirrored, pastel-colored bathrooms. The Motive: To make housewives proud of the bathroom; to make this room as modern as the rest of the apartment, flat, house, etc. The Story: Pierre Dutel, also Kerstin Taube, Manhattan interior decor-tors, are sponsoring mirror-tiled bathrooms, tubs & washstands encased in mirrored glass, swan fixtures.* Reflections from the mirrors to the right, reflections from the mirrors to the left confront the bather. To the U. S. soon will come turquoise blue porcelain tubs, basins, says M. Dutel...
Alfredo Calles, 13, six feet tall, son of President Plutarco Elias Calles of Mexico, visited his sister, Mrs. Thomas Arnold (Ernestina) Robinson, in Manhattan, on his way to New York Military School. When newsgatherers called to see him, he locked himself in the bathroom. Mrs. Robinson sighed: "He is such a rebel!" Mrs. Robinson told how Alfredo disliked automobiles, wanted to see a snowstorm, was fascinated by the subway...
...Rain is Elmer Gantry described by a neighbor whose generosity and politeness, guarded by a sense of humor, have not been assassinated by anger or malice. No bit of raucous mimicry by Sinclair Lewis surpasses Dillwyn Parrish's subtly corrosive pictures of fleshy Fred Rain painting his bathroom while trying not to marry; fouling his straight young son's mind with a circumlocution on sex in flowers; preparing stuffy sermons in his smug study. Not "Old Jud" himself, the muscular college revivalist of Elmer Gantry, is more offensive than Fay Johnson, the Y.M.C.A. hearty of this book...
...their hotels, into one of the most famed and entirely innocent of Swedish customs. Upon ringing for a bath, they were led down the corridor by a woman exactly resembling in age, attractiveness and dress the ordinary U. S. "scrub-woman." Unsuspecting, many U. S. delegates entered the bathroom, closed the door, disrobed and got into the tub. The Swedish bathwoman, having retired during this interval, suddenly re-entered without warning, soaped and scrubbed the delegate in question, then applied a towel as large as a sheet, patting vigorously until...
...that Mr. Coolidge favors the proposal and will accept it." Should Mr. Wrigley not have been misled, the President, encamping at Green Gables, Mr. Wrigley's summer mansion at Lake Geneva, Wis., will have the privileges of one yacht, ten master's bedrooms, a private bathing beach and a bathroom with gold-plated fixtures...