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POCKET CARTOON

By OSVERT LANCASTER

"He says no docen't kno anything about ang paṛita- mentary delegation, bul you're down on his list an Aracnal centre forward and centre forward Arkenal

vou're going to be "

THE CHINA

RIQTOUS CITY!

It produced Al Cópone, and the man who invented the Mickey Finn's Bond is settling- down to respectability and culture in middle age. FABULOUS CHICAGO. - By Emmett Dedman, Hamish Hamilton, · · 25%-

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T. STEAD, visit ing celebrity from ⚫ Britain, angrily poured the ice out of the water pitcher. "You Ameri- cans, he bollowed at his lecture audience at the University of Chicago, "overheat your houses and freeze your drinking water abominably." It WILA not long before Stead found

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graver matters to complain of in Chicago.

Ho called a conference on the city's vice and corrup- tion."'" He wrote a book entitled If Christ Came to Chicago. The city on Lake Michigan was incited to one. of those brief bouts of puritanism which punctuate rather than interrupt its red-blooded career.

Gypay Smith, the hoted avan- gelist, took up the cause which Slead had Inaugurated. One night, he invaded the gay quar

ter of the city, which rercurica to the hymns and prayers of his followers,

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GFORGE MALCOLM THOMSON reviews the NEW BOOKS

palatial rivals continued to fourth, The Everleigh was farmed for its Cold Room, In which the gold lest was renewed" every year, and for the two genteel madams, the Missos Everleigh from Kentucky, Minna and Ada, who presided over, it with decorum and shrewdness,

netting 120,000 dollars a pear

INHERITED

the moral authority of a cardinal to prevent petition of that famous 'òrgy.

Hero

Lure "tycoons like: Insal saloon-helpers like: Mickey Finn ex-pickpocket Inventor of the celebrated knock-out concoction known as the Mickey", Tian Special, alongside legendary social figures like Mrs Potter Palmer..

but.

More modest profits wore registered by the gambling in When Chicago did things, It the club. Minna, accurate dk them on the biggest scale. Judge of masculine preferences. It staged, on St Valentine's Day, decreed that her clients should 1929, the greatest gang massacre be limitd to half an hour of in American history; it produced she said, "It's illegal." gambling per visit. "Besides," the biggest crime magnato since

the Renaissance, Al

Al Capone The palmy days of lte criminal community may now be With immense vivacity

elty's crime bill is stili not without

Emmett rockoned at 600 million dollars pride, Dedmon writes the garish saga believe that the Capone crime D year. There is reason to of Chicago. The elty may now organisation all operates in ita be almost as respectable as it is old territory. And at a recent wealthy; it is becoming elderly; investigation, it was found that it has high cultural interests. 16 percent of the names on the When

the visitor to Chicago's City Hall payroll were fictitious. Jiho art collections

nakhow one city can afford to buy s0

máy

and

any

many Renoirs, he be told.

"We did not buy them. We inherited them from our grand- mothers,"

It was hold that the results of tho enmpaign wero nol altogether as the evangelist had hoped.

Wis sorry, the the proprietress of one notorious establishment, the Everleigh in It, Club, sald, with a look of smug disapproval, young men coming down hero for the first time."

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sco' so many

She was referring to some of singers, Gypsy Smith's hymn who stayed around after the hymn singing was finished.

And for a few years more the Everleigh Club and its less

SECOND CITY

Before the turn of the con- tury, Chicago was the second Amerienp elty in the world, the fifth German, the third Swedish, and the second Polish.

When Emmett Dedmon passes (as he does) from manifest enjoyment in the city's gay and.

Today vitality and enthusiasm reeklass past to unblushing pride are still present, even if the It, he is simply expressing a throttle is not so full. Chicago sentiment common throughout is still the capital of the Middle Chicago.

West, the store, the market- So here are the ward politi- place, the stockyard, clons like Alderman" “Hinky Cried Daniel Burnham, who Dink" Kinzie, one of the proud helped to create it, "Make no inaugurators of that high light little plans. They have in Chicago low life, the riotous magic to stir men's blood." First Word Ball of 1907, proudly Chicago's plans are big, her claimed as "far ahead of any magle is unmistakable. True, thing I anw in Paris." It took it may be black magic.

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BORN 1842, STILL AL-I-VE AND KICKING –

They can't forget

the CAN-CAN

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4 Set in order (7).

8 Actor's part (4),

9 Duelling sword (4).

10 Resisted (7).

11 Finished (4).

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Criminal band (4).

14 Sincere (7).

17 Kind of window (B).

19 Commenced (5).

22 Chose by vote (7).

26 Denomination (4).

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about (7).

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13 Border (4).

10 Colour (4).

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20 Value highly (6).

21 Stress (0).

22 Vegetables (0),

24 Light craft (5).

25 Ventures (5).

„YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD—Acrom: 1 Anthem,, §. Anting, a Lasso, Threat, 10 Proem. 11 Names, 12 Ruin. 12 Cells, 10 Mottia 18 Adores, 20 Meton, 22 Dan, 25 Cigar, 28 Trail, 20 Novice, 27 Loots, 28 Order, 20 Sensed. Down: Anteroom, 2 Tarminsi, 3 Elan, Matador. I Aspecta, Morel, Shell, 14 Legacies, 18 Shepherd, 10 Monitor, 27 Tenants, in Docile, 21 Error, 24 towe

PARADE

for

Wyre district of Lancashire, Not only does he use a vacuum clonner to draw out the soot, but performs the tank resplen- dent in slik top hat.

Entering a cleaner's shop he stabbed a deaf-and-dumb woman employee, shouting: "I am God "and will punish Satan" At the police station he refused to make Since he accepted a challeng a statement, saying quite ing "dare to wear a topper simply, "God does not make some time ago, James has found statements." the headgear so convenient that

mark.

Actually, he was

an ́ON THE Greek

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JOHN BARBER summons the shade of Wiry Sal for a peep at a new, U.S. fling

OES It thrill you to whenever word came through; NO-DROP William Drury, holder and be slid off on to the

know that the latest "hey're at it againi: They ara DOMINOES 30-year-old Wal- table as required. Very useful

American musical to dancing the can con at the Bal soll post office on a coach trip or when there he has adopted it as his trade

des Quatre-Arts!” existentialists open at the London Coliseum

Thea sorter, likes to cogitate on world no suitable table about,

the theatre stola It, an old chimney RUN are on the run. Their is called "Can-Can"? affairs in peace and quiet whlist Willam has played dominoes tinuing

gave it rules and a heady tune.". sweeper's tradition Top hats

handquæariére has been having

The famous gallop was, com- 4 pint in his favourite using the back of the seat in were always worn by sweeps in shut down

posed by Offenbach for the can- pub, and it did seem to him that foot to hold up the dominoes the old days to carry home gitis brought one's train of thought was ar adhering to the holder,

of eggs and other foods offered against them

con in his opera-boufe "Orpheus. often disturbed by the

for their services,

fact that,

Hades" as long ago as 1838. domuto players in the parlour

was first danced But he is not satisfied yet,

James

Carrics his printed athelem corner. For

buttered-finger players being played or shuffled on the

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some were

and their leaders The can-can-French for to court

Evidence has included the "quack-quack" caught on berides "cultivating after a hectic night in Paris

The can-con

instance, the way The cluck-clack, of dominoes bustriess cards in it as the only lations freedam in 'sex re- | in 1842, when a'rich roveller in London' in 'a' Leicester Square. always dropping a piece pub tooles gets on his nerves. Place where he can keep them proved men among them drove a four-horse coach up hail, by an 'aerobatic kdy known

on the floor. Gels on the nerves 100, so his aim is to devise the of a bloke who wants to sit and silent domino, think?

cleum,

he's God. It would not

time to a public dance-hall

of the

themselves of the peace"

as Wiry Sal, 10 years later.

So it sizzling heat-overcosta (ihaide

WILE In blazing torchlight, his

old hat by the out), trousers with one long and party burst in on the crowd and naughty nineties perio GREEK Cobbler Michael Tom one stort bag, and dirty beards broke into a riotous dance till and all that. But this was its Moulin Rouge, Toulouse-Lautrec, GOD dakis is 20 and thines and neckties made of newspapers the whole place was a phanlas heyday. Till then it had been

One witness testified he had magoria of high-kicking heels So Willlum spent a few nights - TOP`HAT BUT There is on matter BO much had he been welbed.. the existentialist head-] and flying, petticoats, Men and move it sUX Ambarct

es merely enerelle

energetic, The 18903 at home Inventing and perfect- NO WHITE TIE

ancient and locked up in the Athens asylum. quarters where he had seen women vied to see who could modern Michael, however, was a tren lunatics

banging the undroppable domino

on frying kick, highest, touch about the methods of 20- citizen and thought his mission puns and wine barrels," with a magnetised carbon insert year-old chimney sweep James was

The thing became fashion to purify the world from "That," said the wilness, "was able. But for years tho pol so that it can adhere to a metal. Mess, of Protsall, in the Over- corruption.

their Jazz band.”

were called to Paris diver

BY HARRY WEINERT

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VIGNETTES OF LIFE

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I HAD SOME MATERIAL LEFT,

FROM THE SLIPCOVERS -.

SO 1 MADE ED A SPORT SHIRT?

CAMOUFLAGE ~

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Making The Home Attractive

ONE WAY YO MAKE A HOME ATTRACTIVE IS TO

PLANT THE RIGHT GIRL IN IT;

STRIVE FOR HARMONY

IF ONE HAS CHIPPENDALE LEGS,

A CHIPPENDALE, CHAIR · IS SUITABLE—AND DON'T LETANY INTERIOR DECORATOR

SELİYOU ONE OF THESE

THE KIDDIES

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Across the floor of the would appear a line of demure girls in long black diets, eyes downcast, looking nsf butter wouldn't melt. Dressed as all nice girls then dressed for the street

they seemed as modest as dairymaids, only purer. They moved softly to the music. But suddenly, a cymbal crashed, and

the rhythm pulsed The girls went whirled, they high-kicked, "Aile

mad.

They"

at once they seized their flying skirts and raised them, shriek- Ing.

PRINCESS DID IT Travellers from France brought back scandalous reports, Neither. England: nor America has yet got over them,

It is easy to uncer at the can -can-now.' But nobody wo

dared to stage I as

Victorians, did, with modern giris in ordinary, dress, Or to Him it ask the British Alm office if they would such 'Bdance TEN

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pass

whlej

they, snapped

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At a party giris" are 80032.. A+ times coaxed to do a can-can, Denny Kaye taught: Princess Margaret and Sharman Douglas to dance it at a private launcy- drem bull, But, on stage or of it loses its original impact by being danced" ** in "⠀⠀⠀ antiquated,

citement

"X-malt "to see if Cole: "Can-Can" will capture the ex- ment of the Parisian, revol, Since Michael Kind Varranged the dances, I hazard, that it grill, But they are keeping it RENA "period costume", attuir. And do not think they dare to know the dancers as modest gra auocamily gone mad.?

The original, canacan la too. moderns

IT CAN BE DONE WITH FOOD

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