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...Budapest, Bela Morvay, clown, put mad new touches upon his old familiar act at the Volksgarten Meirkus, convulsed his audience as never before, worked up to a climax where he imitated a man committing suicide by eating white powder from a little paper bag, fell to the ground writhing comically, waved away other clowns who rushed to his assistance, cried, "Let me die!" and did so, grinning. Dismissed, he had failed to find...
Divorced. William Ziegler Jr., owner of the Hotel Belmont, Manhattan, son of the founder of the Royal Baking Powder Co.; by Mrs. Gladys V. Watson Ziegler, in Paris...
...more than Mr. Curwood's vast and romantic public can follow. All the characters have Souls, lofty or eternally damned. For each date set down there are at least two kisses and three burning looks. And even as David Rock carves his love-pledge on his powder horn in the first chapter, so does saintly Anne draw it forth from beneath her shawl in the last chapter, during a conversation between the two that is full of Cur-woodian epithets like "dear," "sweet," "precious," "hallowed." Perdita
This sign, printed boldly above a slot-machine in a new Chicago dancehall, was the opportunity. Powder for men. Could you believe it? The Chicago Tribune editorial writer, justly incensed, pounded out a scathing denouncement in which he held up to ridicule the forerunner, the great prototype of the breed that blanched their faces artificially...
...asked, "didn't someone quietly drown Rudolph Guglielmo (alias Valentino) years ago? . . . Chicago has its powder puffs; London, its dancing men, Paris its gigolos. Down with Decatur; up with Elinor Glyn. Hollywood is the national school of masculinity. Rudy, the beautiful gardener's boy, is the prototype of the American male. Hell's bells! Oh, sugar...