MAY 21.1946
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A Boiled Octopus Isn't Bad Eating, But Once Is Enough, Says Othman
BY FREDERICK C. OTHMAN
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
Rome. (UP)—It's a good thing my squeamish bride wasn't with me today. I've been eating octopus soup with clams, including the shells, dropped in artistically among the tentacles.
I figured if I were going to have a look at the place where the emperors used to toss the Christians to the lions and then take a peek at the new king in his Palazzo (which could◀
Shutting my eyes and trying not to recall my bride's horror at lesser delicacies, I plowed in and I can report that a young octopus boiled tender in proper spices isn't bad eating. It's reminiscent of the rattlesnake some Texans fed me in Washington a few weeks back. I followed same with spaghetti and fragile which means not frogs but strawberries. Away I went then to look over the Coliseum.
ing in his Palazzo (which could use a new coat of orange colored paint) I'd better have some solid nourishment. The waiter at the restaurant Tibernum Margutta called the manager who called the cook who said the fish soup was magnifico. How was I to know he meant octopi with pink legs six inches long like radish tails? Ah, well.
This is where Emperor Flavian forced the town's criminals to fight tigers and on dull Saturday afternoon fed Christians to the lions.
The cages for the Christians and lions still are intact, and I should say that there wasn't much difference two thousand years ago between the lion and Christian accommodations.
The Coliseum looks much as it did in your ancient history book (remember?). Only histories don't say much about modern day Romans tagging onto suckers like me, trying to sell us genuine imitation cameos and replicas of the Coliseum in solid lead. I had so much trouble shredding these babies that I probably missed some of the sights. The 2coliseum in any event is a whopper and if it weren't falling to pieces Billy Rose undoubtedly would try to lease it for the Roman water follies.
So I had an Italian aperitif, and shagged across town to the Palazzo Quirinale, a neat little shack several blocks square which the new King Humbert calls home. Folks gather in the square out in front every night or so at sunset for a look at him, and I guess I was in luck.
When the people had cheered long enough, the police in their swallow-tail coats with red bindings stood at attention, the doors of the upstairs balcony opened, and two flunkies in full dress suits rolled a royal flag
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across the rails. You should have heard the Romans cheer.
Pretty soon the king came out in a sky-blue uniform, squinted at the setting sun and took a bow. He waved to his subjects and he bowed some more. From where I stood he seemed to be a nice looking citizen except for his hair which is getting thin on top.
The citizens yelped then for the queen, and pretty soon she came out, too. She was a handsome woman in flowered blue and white dress, and when she had been cheered sufficiently her husband motioned for their children to come outside. These included the 9-year-old Prince of Naples, a blond youngster with a pleasant smile who is expected by some Italians to be the next king. But let us not get involved in Roman politics. It's more complicated even than the American variety. And almost as noisy.
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It was a satisfaction to see the king, but hard on the feet, and anyhow I got fascinated with the cops in those long-tailed coats with brass buttons down the backs. They also wear swords.
They have red stripes down their pants, and they top themselves off with tricorner hats like Napoleon's. They are the most magnificent police I've seen anywhere in the world, and when they also wear whiskers they look ferocious. They seem to be as polite as they are deluxe, and
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He grabbed Underwood by the coat lapels, pulled him over a three-foot railing, and thumped him to the floor. Underwood came up dazed but swinging.
Virgil Underwood, 35, 6 feet, 3 inches tall, was before Judge Homer E. Sackett, 71, as defendant in a divorce case.
The look on Virgil's face as they led him away showed that his feelings toward the court were many.
Topeka. (UP)—Gov. Andrew Schoeppel has announced that he will join the law firm of Foulston, Siefkin, Bartlett, and Powers, Wichita, after completing his term of governor and shortly after the first of the year.
Gary, Ind. (UP)—A 71-year-old judge showed a towering 35-year-old defendant in Lake Superior court that he means what he says when 'he calls for order.
Sackett seized him around the neck, and down went Underwood again.
Sackett went into action.
Virgil grew angry at Mrs. Norma Devine, a witness for his wife, rushed to the witness stand and smacked her in the eye.
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The judge got up, climbed back on the bench, smoothed his hair, sentenced Underwood to 90 days in jail and fined him $200 for contempt of court.
I think it probably would be a pleasure to be arrested by a blue-coat straight out of Gilbert and Sullivan.
But contempt was not among them.
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Hollywood. (UP) — Dancing teacher Kenny Williams predicts that jitterbugging is on its way out and the waltz is on its way back in. It's about every 50 years. Williams has observed, that the waltz returns to popularity, then slips back into second or third place behind some hot jump dance.
His conclusions were strengthened by his experiences teaching the Charleston to high school hepcats for the 20th Century-Fox technicolor musical, "Margie," starring Jeanne Crain, Alan Young and Glenn Langan.
"The kids had no trouble learning the Charleston steps, but they complained that the music was too fast. That indicates to me that dancing is slowing up again."
Williams said the waltz first became popular in 1850.
"It caused plenty of talk at the time. It was the curse of the generation and the dance of the devil, according to thousands of ministers."
"But people kept right on waltzing until 1860, when the first of the
'hot' dances—the polka—was introduced. It keeps the jitterbugs of the period jumping until 1880, when a dance called the can-can was taken out of the dives of Paris and made respectable."
But a reaction set in after that, he said, and by 1900 waltz again was the top favorite.
"As usual, the people couldn't keep their feet on the dance floor long, and by 1910 they were jumping again to the cakewalk. It held its own until the one-step, fox-trot, maxize, bunny-hug and so on became popular.
Those fads gave way in 1925 to the Charleston, the dance craze of the century, he said. Theaters all over the country sponsored Charles- contests and no vaudeville show was complete without a couple of the leg-knockers.
"Since then, the dancing has been slowing down," he said. "And I'm looking for the regular 50-year revival of the waltz quite soon."
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