Life — January 11, 1929 — page 16: what you’re looking at

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ad. Life Abro i & —_= = lc JANEIRO, Brazil, Dec. 26—, PARIS.—After long research a commit- ieni, a prominent editor, in ajtee of judges has declared that cocktails | speech made aboard ship during a dinner mixed by men are more energetic and given for Mr. Hoover, claims that movies, those prepared by women more suave. and newspaper accounts of bank robberi And those by children and college boys divorces and murders give South Ameri-| enough to send you home -in an ambu- can countries the wrong impression of | lance. the United States. We get the same im- pression, too, Doctor. SHANGHAI, Dec, 26.—Film men in Shanghai have protested to local authorities ae _ here against a book published in Chinese TORONTO, Canada—Lady M ar y|and called “10,000 Evils of the Cinema.” Heath flew all the way from Buffalo to} Startling declarations are made in it that Toronto through a blinding snowstorm | Douglas Fairbanks is an Arabian and that to get a glass of beer. Lady Heath, onlin 1914 he conspired, with eight chorus arriving, said that she was not a beer | girls, to kill his mother. Another Chinese drinker, but just flew up for something | expose is that Clara Bow is 39 years old to do. Yeah? |and has been married 12 times. Well, we | don’t believe it. BASKRA, IRAK, Dec. 24.—Repony from Persia state Dost Mohammed, a tribal leader, is heading a rebellion in Persiag Baluchistan. He is rumored to hay Poisoned all the wells. What a man for the U. S. prohibition department! BERLIN.—A cup and a saucer from the Prussian state porcelain factory will hereafter serve as a reward to the brave German mother who ushers her twelfth child into the world. Must be @ loving | cup. LUCKNOW,’ India—Sir John Sioa, chairman of the Indian Commission that has met with so much opposition from Indian students, was presented with a beautiful silver casket by Ehtisham Ali, of Lucknow, before leaving the city. 4 bit suggestive, we calls it. PARIS, Dec. 28.—Mirrors are sug- | gested by Pierre Blois for communicating with Mars. They would have to be as large around as Paris, he says, in order to develop sufficient intensity. The answer to an actor's prayer. ROME, Dec. 30.—Italy is enforcing sternly its Fascist laws that there shall be no more kissing under the moon even by! fiances, in lover’s lanes, streets or other | ~ public places. When in Rome, don't. — | LONDON.—German, British, French and Canadian film companies are reputed to have a merger under way which will boycott Hollywood movies. There's one league we'd like to see Mr. Kellogg join. LIMA, Peru, Dec. 21—Joselito Martin, a noted Spanish bull fighter, has been | barred by the Municipal Council from | further appearance here. He bit a news- paper man who criticized his technique at the last bull fight. That's news. | BUCHAREST, Rumania, Dec. 29.— Juliu Maniu, new Premier, has discovered that an entire railroad, including tracks, rolling stock and signal system, has been Force or Hasrr. stolen. Maybe it was just mislaid. The salesgirl who married a millionaire, comicbooks.com