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Beeman Barrett was eating a chop with spinach. His back was to the door, and the hotel forbids paging in its dining room. For an hour and a half he continued to eat slowly while bellboys gesticulated from the doorway and the lobby swarmed with buzzing bees. Finally one found its way to its master, lit on his nose. Beeman Barrett quietly put it in his pocket, finished his coffee, went on a beehunt. Amid cheers he retrieved half. The rest are still at large...
...hardest times on an old. nigger I ever saw. I can't get a job nowhere. I walked all de way out here, nine miles in de rain and I's hungry. I knows I can't work like a young nigger but I can still chop a little and don't care what you pay me.'' The job was in the red, he needed no more men: but what could any human do? "Go to the quarters and tell them to feed you. I will see what...
Many a squeamish U. S. citizen believes that a Chinese can live on what an Occidental throws away, suspects that Chinese business establishments ? notably chop suey restaurants and laundries?are unsanitary. Caucasian aversion to Chinese hygiene entered a business quarrel which reached New York City's courts fortnight...
...announcer, ends with, "Graham McNamee announcing." There is no pun about Chinese junk. Pictorially, Around the World in 80 Minutes is nothing much. But the cinema has always before treated information as a bore; travelogs have almost without exception been sad and spiritless products proving, to the accompaniment of chop-suey music, that all Chinese look alike. This travelog is a novelty because it is witty and de luxe, the record of a trip which must have been fun and of a personality which is happy, egoistic, alert. Douglas Fairbanks obviously enjoyed making it, should enjoy a handsome profit from...
...story corresponds roughly to the one which any newsreader detects between the lines of items concerning adolescent bandits, schoolboy murderers and other such. It tells about a boy (Eric Linden) who, failing to win a high-school prize for oratory, takes up with bad companions, patronizes dance halls and chop-suey dens. While drunk he kills a friendly old delicatessen dealer. At the trial he dramatizes his predicament, undertakes to conduct the defense of himself & accomplices. He repents, too late, when he has been sentenced to death. Good shot: Eric Linden borrowing a dime from the prison attendant to give...