Abandoned Hollywood Lot End Of A Golden Era
The Hollywood lot where early film history was made by Jesse L. Lasky and Cecil B. DeMille has been demolished. Famous Players-Lasky relocates to a new 26 acre site as stages and dressing rooms once used by Wallace Reid Gloria Swanson Mary Pickford are torn away.
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Dinner of 100 Courses in Historic Theatre Setting
In Peking on a historic theatre site the Croziers hosted a hundred course dinner. Dishes used lotus seeds bird nests sharks fins and lips bone marrow duck tongues and livers winds pipes and sixty year old rice. Three foreign ministers and two explorers attended Roy Chapman Andrews and W Douglas Burden among the guests. The meal lasted three hours in the old imperial box with jade cups and samshu.
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Paris wine judges vow abstinence in famed contest
Sixty six Paris butlers sampled 528 bottles of France s finest whites at the hotel men school. Bottles from Vouvray Graves Chablis Pouilly Alsace Meur sault Cotes du Rhone and Montrachet were judged by origin and date while no drop was swallowed. A sip was held briefly in the mouth and discarded in sawdust before each new sample.
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New Uniformed Officers Law Takes Effect in Virginia
Beginning today all officers excluding sheriffs must wear uniforms when arresting on highways to collect fees. The General Assembly act also applies to constables, who may face reduced or eliminated earnings from fees. The attorney general and the state highway commission will designate the uniform and related enforcement details.
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Highway Commission to Drop Traffic Deputies Uniforms
Henry G. Shirley says the three traffic-law deputies will be reassigned with one joining the Motor Vehicle Department. Uniforms must please Attorney General Saund ers and M V commissioner Hayes. Prohibition officers under the new law have not set a uniform. Maximum penalty for violations is a $500 fine and twelve months imprisonment.
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High Hats To Identify Reporters On Assignment
Paris editors plan reporters wearing high hats to identify themselves at dangerous assignments. The goal is not protection but distinguishing reporters from rioters as injuries to journalists increase. French news writers are increasingly on scene rather than behind police lines waiting for reports.
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