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Said Husband to London's Daily Mirror: "I saw Mr. Cripps [head of the Vagrancy Committee], and he is going to put my proposals to the Minister of Health. But this is only the beginning. I intend to draft a complete new 'Reform Bill for Casuals.' " Asked why he had taken to the open road, he said: "It is in the blood. My great aunt and uncle were missionaries in Africa...
Delvaux, 49, who really does look like Keaton (and poses before a mirror as his own model), lives and works in solid comfort on Brussels' conservative Rue d'Ecosse. He is a dreamer who reads little, belongs to no church, no political party. The tables and cupboards in his studio are cluttered with seven human skulls, and the walls are banked with huge, infinitely complicated paintings. (A recent one, called Unrest in the City, includes some 1,200 figures.) Says he: "I work patiently and minutely like the Flemish primitives, Van Eyck and Memling." He paints on plywood...
Early in his tabloid career (at Hearst's Mirror), Charnay once bawled out wizened Editor Emile Gauvreau for printing off-the-record information that Charnay had promised not to use. The boss rang for a guard and Charnay, still protesting, was hauled away. But in losing his job, he won a reputation on the main stem as a man who could keep a secret. Charnay once posed as a murderer's attorney to get an interview in a cell at the Tombs, hid in a French actress' stateroom closet to get an exclusive story on her "life...
...press descended on the Lord Chamberlain with whoops of joy. Said the London Daily Mirror's leader-writer: "What is clearly missing at the Lord Chamberlain's office is a share of that sense of humour which is Britain's priceless national possession. . . . Abolish the comedian, the cartoonist (and even the leader-writer) and there would soon be an Act of Parliament to restore them...
Dung Pit. Grosz spent the first months of World War I as a bored infantryman. Hospitalized for "brain fever" and then discharged, Grosz made an ivory tower of his Berlin studio. "The walls, ceiling and furniture were . . . decorated with cigar bands, bits of broken mirror, and stars made of tinsel," he remembers...