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During supper a man's face appeared at a screened porthole of the Wanderwell schooner Carma, onetime rumrunner bought at Government auction. The stranger asked: "Where is Captain Wanderwell...
...country to raise money. For the Chicago Sanitary Fair Sculptor Rogers donated his first group, "Checkers," two figures bending over a draughts board, one laughing, one glum. It was the hit of the fair. In New York he showed his next piece, an Abolitionist number entitled "The Slave Auction." No dealer would handle it because of the amount of Southern sentiment in the city, so Yankee Rogers found a colored boy with a wagon and hawked copies of his piece from door to door at $10 the copy. He did a land office business. From then on he never sold...
With the possible exception of old Bourbon whiskey, the most important things in the lives of Kentuckians are the Derby in May and the tobacco auctions in December. Last year, because Kentucky's famed burley tobacco began to sell as low as $4.61 per 100 Ib. (about one-half 1930 levels), the growers at one of the auctions muttered curses, shouted threats, then took to pelting the manager of the "floor" (warehouse) with apples, broke up the auction in a general riot. Several other auctions had to be postponed. Last week Kentucky growers were jubilant. In addition...
Three days later Grand Champion Texas Special was put on the auction block, in dispirited bidding was sold to Pfaelzer Packing Co. for $1,676.25-$1.25 a lb., lowest price since 1923 when Broadus White Socks brought but 60? a lb.* Before being cut up, Texas Special was taken to Pittsburgh, exhibited some more...
...family's fortunes, has been forced to capitalize his good manners in the ignoble profession of gigolo. Maritza is the pretty daughter of a wealthy businessman who admires the count but despises his calling. When a fat U. S. widow (Mary Boland) buys the von Degenthal castle at an auction and plans to modernize it into an apartment hotel with the count for manager and his valet (Charles Ruggles) for maitre d'hotel, the inevitable alliance between Marshall and Maritza develops without further impediment. Typical shot: Maritza peeping out behind a curtain while Marshall superciliously accepts a stogie from...