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mean anything in their dictating lives. At the Café de la Paix I saw six instances of more than four people insisting that it was [[underlined]] their [[/underlined]] taxi. And the driver picked the fare which best suited his whims and his decree was final.....

"Aladin and his wonderful lamp" was a gorgeously ^[[staged]] picture which lacked the right quality of "pep". The costumes and scenes by Leon Bakst were very very effective and pleasing. His scenes are in all colors and he must have been among the first to realize camouflage for his drawings are not straight lines or evenly applied paint, but rather wave effects and done in patch work of rough [[strikethrough]] daib[[/strikethrough]] daubs
[[image: a series of drawn lines, the first block vertical, the next block adjacent to it horizontal, the next three blocks vertical]] comme ça.
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Lord but prices are high. In some places the war basis is giving way a trifle but a meal still costs