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...most over-confident advertising man. There you can find your choice of a "brand-new bathtub for $45"; a "120 Bass M. Hohner accordion with a double octave bar"; "two pairs of 9 short nylons for 9½ mediums"; "four well-bred grey-striped kittens"; a part-time maid, or a fervent plea for a hard-to-get copy of Tubbs Analytics...
...performers: a smiling, bloody-handed centurion; a drum-beating dwarf; a quizzical, bare-legged blonde selling Eskimo Pies; a mean-eyed young man in the coils of a friendly python; a crowned, repulsively ugly juggler embracing a beautiful purple ball; trapeze artists necking on a safety net; an old maid caressing a toothed fish. They all hinted at a mingled horror and loveliness which might be the nature of Beckmann's still-undiscovered...
Lusty and busty, steatopygous and sinful, Kiki swung along her Paphian way from scullery maid to artists' model to become one of Montparnasse's topflight nightclub entertainers. The artists who immortalized Kiki's curves in oil and marble sometimes forgot to pay her, and Kiki never cared. Unconcerned, she tramped the streets in a threadbare overcoat and man's hat and some artist's castoff shoes. Later, in fancier finery, Kiki lounged in the wicker chairs at the Cafe du Dome or sang in her Pernod-husky voice ("I could never sing...
...last week he marshaled his lady, his three children (Rose Maureen, 13, Shane William, 10, Brian James, 6) a nanny (nurse), an aide-de-camp, a valet, a maid, a secretary, a lady in waiting, three dogs, 28 trunks and suitcases onto the four-stacker Aquitania in Southampton (see cut), and in a grey drizzle set sail for Halifax...
Died. Marlin Hurt, 40, tall, dark & handsome radio actor whose falsetto portrayal of Beulah, the cackling, philosophizing Negro maid of Fibber McGee & Molly, was so convincing that it once drew a proposal of marriage; of a heart attack; in Hollywood...