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...true. I'm not going to be with you much longer! . . . For in a little while I'll be stripping sorghum and hoeing peas instead of peddling refrigerators and radios. ... I want to sell at least 25 new G. E.'s so I can leave some bean and potato money for the wife and children while I'm eating off of Uncle Bud. . . . Frankly, I've been sold out -so now I'm selling out. . . ." Beneath a list of salable articles Prisoner Ballew penned his signature and a postscript...
Died. Walter Connolly, 53, beloved stage and screen actor, whose procession of whimsical and mellow characters mirrored himself; of a heart attack induced by overwork; in Hollywood. After 23 years on Broadway (The Late Christopher Bean, Uncle Vanya), he went to Hollywood in 1932, thereafter had more work than he could handle...
...reading and writing (since 1938 nearly 50,000,000 Chinese have been taught to read and write). Their students, of whom a third are entirely supported by the Government, live in bamboo and mud huts, 16 boys or eight girls sleeping in a single room. They eat boiled cabbage, bean soup, a few other vegetables, often suffer from acute undernourishment. They do their own laundry, are awakened by bugles at 5 a.m. in order to make the most of daylight, save electricity. Having given up tennis-dear to undergraduates' hearts-because balls and rackets come high, they have adopted...
...Green from New Orleans claims that this is its 51st year on the road; oldtimers can remember it for at least 38. Part revue, part musicomedy, part minstrel show, it tells, season after season, of the adventures of two Negroes, short, coal-black Silas Green and tall, tannish Lilas Bean. For years the show never bothered to change its plot. When the public finally started to yawn, Silas and Lilas found they had better vary their mishaps each season...
...Shantung, Chefoo has been one of the principal ports of call of coastwise British steamers. Chefoo exports famed Shantung lace and most of the hairnets worn by U. S. women. Last week one of these ships, the Hunan, idled along off Chefoo. In its hold lay a cargo of bean cakes, machinery, flour, and beer for the British flotilla preparing to assist in the blockade of Vladivostok. A handful of passengers-missionaries, German merchants, two or three mysterious White Russians-were lolling in the lounge; a couple of junior officers were playing ping-pong; below decks a horde of Chinese...