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...Barber Breen of the Manter Hall Hairdressers, on the other hand, believes that monks were the first to use the short clip. "The short haircut is properly called monkey haircut," he said, "because the monks are the originators. The name monkey was given it by a Mr. Schneider, head tonsorial artist of the Hotel Vendome 41 years ago. He was the first to give the short clip and should know the proper title for it," Mr. Breen concluded...
...more local, and far more disturbing infringement on the moral atmosphere of Copperthwaite Street, is personified in one Charles Breen. Breen, affectionately termed the Proprietor of Parke and Tilford's by his Dunster House acquaintances, partakes freely of intoxicating potations at periodic intervals. Under the influence of demon rum, he invariably gives vent to his superfluous enthusiasm by standing on Copperthwaite Street at six o'clock in the morning, summoning all the vocal power at his command, and calling out random remarks concerning the intelligence, habits, and ancestry of Dunster men in particular, Harvard men more generally, and all college...
CRIME IN CORN WEATHER-Mary M. Atwater-Hought on Mifflin ($2). When old man Breen was killed no one mourned, many had cause to be glad. The little Iowa town's biggest excitement in years made a countywide field-day, but defeated its purpose. A beautifully subtle description of townsfolk, of why murder was done and why neither police nor press knew...
...Fane's relations with her husband had remained as they were when she first arrived in Hongkong, hers would have been a loveless and ignoble marriage. Since it is nothing of the sort at the conclusion of The Painted Veil, the picture, despite the fact that Censor Joseph Breen gave it Certificate of Approval No. 395, can be considered an advertisement for adultery as a matrimonial cureall. In this respect it follows Somerset Maugham's shallow novel, from which it was adapted. In other respects, except that it lacks the rapid-fire beginning in which the two lovers...
...Louis Woman, My Old Flame and several other things before Paramount chose Belle of the Nineties. Only two major changes-a hasty and unconvincing marriage at the conclusion and the removal of a sequence showing Mae West and John Miljan preparing to retire-were made before Censor Joseph Breen saw and approved the picture last August. Subsequently Belle of the Nineties passed the censor boards which the industry considers most fastidious, New York and Kansas...