Hey folks,
When the film's intertitles refer to "Nose-Powder" (in the prison refectory scene, when the guards are searching for a "Nose-Powder" smuggler, who then stashes the substance in a salt pot), are they referring to cocaine ? Was it common in society in the mid-30s ?
Thanks.
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Yep. Just search Google for "Nose powder."
http://blogs.warwick.ac.uk/jmiles/entry/modern_times_is/
The cockroach is a noble beast....
Cole Porter wrote a song with the line "Some get their kicks from cocaine".
shareYou would actualy be suprised how many hollywood stars back in the day did drugs like cocaine or heroine (though I'm not sure Chaplin was a user). They were probably bigger during the silent era, ya know with the huge party scene, but they were not that uncommon. There were quite a few ODs from heroine during the end of the 20's. During the 30's and 40's Tallulah Bankhead would say she was a user of cocaine and Billie Holiday, though she was not realy in the hollywood exactly, she overdosed on heroine in the 50's.
If you want to know about old hollywoods more seedy side you should check out books like "Hollywood Babylon", "Dishing Hollywood", or "Hollywood book of scandles".
You would most definitely be surprised by the benefits of a proper education. Oh wait, you probably wouldn't be at all.
shareaw ya
blow was good back then.
Buster Keaton spoofed Sherlock Holmes in a silent short film by playing a detective named Coke Ennyday.
shareI was also surprised by this scene. The behavior he displays is on point . Ahead of his time
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