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...forked out $1,000,000 to cops who winked at their $100,000,000 bookmaking business. His proof: 1,500 feet of film recording payoffs; evidence, collected by a squad of special sleuths, that Brooklyn cops bought, with their boodle, outboard motorboats, small cruisers, summer homes, automobiles, $1,000 fur coats for their wives, real estate. Named by Amen grand juries were 49 cops...
That the Little Fellow eventually becomes a multimillionaire wearing two fur coats, one over the other, is unimportant. What matters are the delicious beads of humor strung on the thread of his unique personality. Chaplin cinemaddicts will recognize with tears of joy two famed scenes: trapped by a blizzard in a lonely mountain cabin with a friendly prospector named Big Jim (Mack Swain), Charlie hopefully removes a shoe and places it in the stewpot. Tenderly basting the foul boot with its own juices, he nurses it along to Big Jim's bursting point. "Not quite done yet," soothes...
...Yard strung a guard of 27 policemen around the Japanese Embassy, whose staff is awaiting exchange. After Viscount Hisaakira Kano, ex-manager of London's Yokohama Specie Bank, told a reporter the atrocity story was "so much propaganda," Scotland Yardmen bundled him off with one suitcase and a fur rug to the Isle of Man internment camp...
...manufacture of many luxuries (including bath heaters, fur coats, evening dresses, horse and dog racing equipment) was stopped. Makers of women's stockings were restricted to four colors: candlelight, brown derby, touch of mauve, first love...
Morris Hirshfield, a retired Brooklyn cloak & suit manufacturer, whose skies and mountains look as though they were made of herringbone or tweed, and whose quizzical lions have feminine-looking fur collars. After seeing Rousseau's painting of The Dream he was inspired to try a nude...