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...discovery of a white animal belong- ing to a species whose members are usually dark in color, calls forth a religious ceremony in savage countries, a news story in civilized countries. Last week, members of the San Diego Zoological Society ex- pedition to hunt the rare Townsend fur seal, told newsgatherers that they had seen white seals on Guadalupe Island, off the coast of Mexico. They had not been able to get a specimen since the animals were lying on inaccessible rocks. When he read press accounts of the white seals, John Barrymore, cinemactor who has twice chased the white...
Storm Over Asia (Amkino). A Mongol hunter, mulcted out of a silver fox skin by a Russian fur tycoon, runs amok and flees for his life. In the mountains he encounters kinsmen embattled against the White army and joins them. He is captured, shot, left to die, then nursed back to life when an amulet which accident brought him convinces the White general that he is progeny of great Genghis Khan. The wily White general sets him up as a puppet ruler to insure peace amongst the surly Mongols, but the hunter, confused and bewildered at first, suddenly discerns...
Jean Charles Worth-Square velvet fans and leg o' mutton topped satin gloves. Black ermine muffs. Fur hems on jersey skirts. Evening dresses of gold lace...
Jean Patou-High waistlines, skirts five inches below the knee for sports, just clearing the floor at night. The "Egyptian silhouet," evening gowns with a draped front, skirt slit to the calf. Peaked cloth caps for winter sports with fur ear-laps á la Kennebunk Port. Featured colors: dark yellow, green, astrakhan beige...
Captain Roland Molyneux-Loyal to the Empire waistline, the captain-couturier is even more Napoleonic in attempting to revive the poke bonnet, trimmed with fur, ostrich feathers, cock plumes. Lounging pyjamas are voluminous, trailing like a dress in back, trousered in front...