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...most of Chaney's best pictures. Before that he was a spieler for a sideshow, travelled twice around the world with a carnival in which he acted in blackface. Director Browning must have enjoyed making Freaks. It is one of the most macabre pictures ever filmed and it doubtless contains more misfits of humanity than were ever gathered together in the combined shows of Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey (see p. 18). A man without legs walks on his hands. A woman without hands eats with her feet. A Negro with no limbs at all lights a cigaret with...
...were living in a house in which we had a part ownership we would doubtless be interested in those who shared this house with us. It would not please us at all if their part of the house was dirty, contaminated with cockroaches and other bugs that would swarm into our section...
...quiet finesse to his every action. He always has his audiences in the palm of his hand, and he knows just how to keep it there. The result is a spontanaeity that leads one to believe that he is making up his lines as he goes along--as he doubtless is, sometimes. His gestures, especially a "safe-at-home" motion and a raised forefinger, say even more than his lines...
...spend a fortnight inspecting the Albert National Park, a mighty game preserve of 825,000 acres conceived by His Majesty when, as Crown Prince in 1899, he visited Yellowstone National Park. The present Crown Prince Leopold and Crown Princess Astrid of Belgium were in the Philippine Islands last week, doubtless conceived many a notion as they were handsomely feted by new, carabao-shooting Governor General Theodore Roosevelt...
There are a few companies in which the president is better known than the chairman. Doubtless more people could name Colby Mitchell Chester Jr., as president of General Foods Corp. than could name Edward F. Hutton as chairman, despite the latter's fame as a broker. Simon Guggenheim, president of American Smelting & Refining, is more famed than Chairman Francis Herbert Brownell. General Motors' President Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. is far more in the public eye than Lammot du Pont, chairman...