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Their plane was locked up and the flyers would have been locked up too, but for the intercession of Ambassador William Cameron Forbes. As it was, they were questioned four hours at the airport; four hours again the next day and nearly eight hours the day after that when their developed films showed views of fortifications. Both Herndon & Pangborn protested they had not recognized a fort if they saw one, but Japanese espionage laws are strict: They could be fined $1,500 or put in prison for three years. Civil officials, believing in the flyers' innocence of intent, were...
...runs off with his friend's fiancée, also drunk. Thereafter the hero is dogged until the final curtain by newspaper reporters, the girl's large father from the Texas badlands and alcoholic amnesia. Included in the proceedings is an inebriated Justice of the Peace (Hugh Cameron) whose lampoon of a toper is as amusing as Robert Middlemass' broad portrayal of the sturdy Western parent. At one point, when Mr. Middlemass has particularly good cause to suspect his daughter of impure conduct, he pulls a revolver, threatens to "let this hell stick start spitting all over...
...Cameron Wilson who came from Aberdeen, Scotland to attend the meeting said: "I have attained a peace that material things, even loss of money, cannot influence...
...Trahan's act (he was lately in The Second Little Show) consists in messing with a huge wad of chewing gum while he plays the piano and is mauled by Miss Eukona Cameron when she is not singing. Last week Miss Cameron did not tear off quite so many of Mr. Trahan's outer clothes as usual. But the chewing gum oozed and blobbered from Mr. Trahan's lips, was stuck under the piano, retrieved, chewed, stuck again, smeared on the piano keys, frantically stretched in all directions, finally gathered together for the supreme effort of mirth...
Died. Rev. Dr. James Cameron Mackenzie, 78, organizer and headmaster (1882-99) of Lawrenceville School at Lawrenceville, N. J., which he modeled on the house plan of Phillips Exeter Academy and the British public schools, reorganizer of the Jacob Tome Institute at Port Deposit, Md. and its headmaster for two years; of heart disease; in Dongan Hills, Staten Island, N. Y. Founder and headmaster of his own Mackenzie School at Dobbs Ferry (later at Monroe. N. Y.) from 1901 until he retired in 1926, he declined invitations to be headmaster of Phillips Exeter, president of Lafayette College, superintendent of Philadelphia...