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Besides the oldtimers of the Canal Zone, many a Russian might recognize Mr. Stevens should he revisit Siberia. He was president of the interallied technical board which improved trans-Asian travel during and after the War. They would know him, perhaps, in West Gardiner, Me., where he was born, "chock full of energy." They might know him almost anywhere between the Mississippi and the Pacific, especially in the Northwest, where he laid out vast stretches of the Canadian Pacific and Great Northern roads. Near Havre, Mont., there is a statue to jog the memory. It stands on a bleak ridge...
...Cleveland, Yee Chock was decapitated with an ordinary meat cleaver in his room in the Chinatown. Police and health officials promptly made a raid and seized about 500 Chinese. City Manager Hopkins ordered fire and health authorities to proceed with condemnation proceedings of homes and filthy firesides...
SENATOR SMOOT (Rep.): "Chock full of common sense...
...should an artist wait until her career is ended to write her reminiscences?" cries Maria Jeritza* on the first page of her memoirs.† She has answered the question by publishing them in midcareer. Her book is chock-full of merry notes, and will be greedily devoured by lovers of personal chit-chat about beautiful and important people. There is the story of the strong-man Graff 1, who played Ursus in the opera Quo Vadis, and had to hold the prima donna in his arms for ten minutes at a time. "But oh," wails Jeritza, "how many times...
Seldom since the first appearance of Charlie Chaplin has any audience laughed so continuously as at the first evening of "The Whole Town's Talking". The play was so chock full of clever sayings, funny situations, and pure farce that every minute had its sixty seconds' worth of laughs. And when not laughing, there was Catherine Owen to look at--and this certainly was no come-down. On the whole "an enjoyable evening was had by all" who were present...