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...importantly last week the spring and summer salons of many a great Parisian couturier. Since these are no vulgar "fashion shows" a discreet preview was permitted only to authentic amateurs and smartest clients. Soon the elect observed a series of Parisian points sure to mark the orbit of La Mode...
...Lady of Chance. Cinema racketeers and crooks, sensitive to a waning interest in their mode of life, have shown in recent films a happy tendency to satirize themselves. Love is all they take seriously now, and they may even change their attitude about that for the better. Norma Shearer, at least, outwitting Lowell Sherman, a rival racketeer, or finding out that the fellow she wants to gyp is not as rich as she hoped, provides an entertaining hour...
...Washington many an inquisitive glance has been cast toward the tiny, exquisite person of Mme. Katsuji Debuchi, wife of the newly appointed Japanese Ambassador to the U.S. It is known that Mme. Dubuchi in her home wears the flowered silken kimonos of Japan's ancient mode, and that her hair is often coiled intricately in fashions ordained by a remote Japanese coiffeur. Certain insufficiently informed persons deduced there from that Mme. Debuchi was an old school Japanese woman, that she opposed the modern trend of her countrywomen toward emancipation...
...United States of Brazil have been easily the most friendly of South American republics toward the United States of North America. Generally speaking Brazilians are proud and pleased that their Constitution, "States Rights," Congress, Cabinet, Vice-Presidency, and Presidency are all cut and fitted to the mode of Washington. Only such trifling differences exist as that each Brazilian state is represented by three Senators instead of the Washingtonian two. All too few North American school children have been taught the historic words wherewith Brazil followed the U.S. into war with Germany. Cried President Wenceslao Braz to the Brazilian Congress: "With...
...seldom that I have been late at mealtime and I have avoided keeping late hours. Very little work has been done before breakfast, but usually I have taken a short walk and during the winter season a more extended walk before dinner, which has been my chief mode of exercise. I have kept a couple of vibrating machines in my room which I found helpful...