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Strollers in Cannes spotted jaunty, whistling Maurice Chevalier cycling off to his greengrocer's, a market basket bouncing on the handle bars. Similarly straitened by gasoline famine, Cora Lapercerie, once the lissome toast of gaslit Montmartre, now circa 250 lb., rode over the cobbles in a small cart drawn by a straining Shetland pony...
Herbert Asbury has spent the last twelve years hobnobbing with the shades of shady characters. No. 1 shammer in the past of U. S. cities, he returns from each exploration with a rich scum of superlatives. The Gangs of New York (1928) found old Manhattan a gaslit Gomorrah without peer. The Barbary Coast (1933) offered pre-earthquake San Francisco as the most vicious spot in the U. S. The French Quarter (1936) revealed New Orleans unrivaled in vice on a sinful planet. This week, with Gem of the Prairie, Mr. Asbury peers down the cesspool of Chicago, convincingly awards...
...opened backstage in a gaslit provincial vaudeville theatre, with performers peeping at a newborn babe lying in a trunk. "Whose brat is that?" a woman asks, is answered "That's Jerry and Helen Cohan's boy." Suddenly, out of the trunk rises a tiny hand waving a tiny flag...
...been many a day since the Mahatma has gone to an exhibition. At 75, he is a cripple confined to his second-story bedroom in a gloomy, gaslit brownstone house on 57th Street. Eilshemius persists in sitting with his back to the window, his face turned away from the light. He shrills at visitors: "It's too late to enjoy my fame. I got bad legs...
...gaslit era before cinema and radio, St. Nicholas was the No. 1 U. S. magazine for young people. Like the old quarry where swimming was forbidden, like the first ice on the pond in winter, it was an essential part of childhood-a storehouse of fruitful articles and hair-raising fiction for adolescents...