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Huey Long's machine fell apart after an assassin's bullet knocked Huey out of the driver's seat in 1935. But the machine has been patched up. This week it rolled as smoothly as ever through the quaint, crooked streets of New Orleans...
...tropically lush imaginary scene, in which flat, doll-like figures galloped and swayed through a high-pitched bedlam of clangorous color. When the last brush strokes had dried, he carefully stored it away in his files of similarly exuberant Souchons: Van Gogh-like pictures of hot, shadowless Louisiana cornfields, quaint, warm-colored, old-worldly interiors, and fanciful, childlike coloristic riots like The Farm (see cut), in which two bright blue mules sit grotesquely under a clump of bone-bare trees while lambs and pigs gam, bol in the distance...
...quaint performance, that review of my novel, Between Two Worlds! [TIME, March 24]. Your reviewer cannot forgive me because I write "easily." He ought to know that I have been 46 years at it; the day when I began may have been before he was born. [Right-ED.] There is a saying that "easy writing makes hard reading"; but your critic admits that in my case both are easy...
...movie which comes when Harry Lauder dons his kilts and grabs his crooked came to give a song. The chances are that you won't be able to catch all he sings, but you'll get the point through his sly winks and infectious laughs. The songs are quaint, the comedy refreshing, and everything is very different from the ordinary picture. If you are tired of bed-room comedies and blood and thunder histories, you'll find that the "Song of the Road" is a gratifying change...
After booming the circulation of Egyptian newspapers for the past two months, the trial of Ahmed Salem, biggest Cairo sensation of the decade, came to its quaint close last week. The sloe-eyed, romantic Egyptian public loves a love story. This one was dished up hot and fresh every morning in court when pomaded, silk-shirt-wearing Ahmed Salem's expensively gowned wife Amina rushed in and was permitted to embrace the prisoner passionately just as the judge was taking his seat. Ahmed stood accused of "bribery, forgery and perjury" in selling to the Egyptian police as hard steel...