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...story is concerned with the rise in filmland first of the Kellys through the efforts of the daughter Kitty through the efforts of the daughter Kitty (June Clyde) as an actress and then of the Cohens when the son Melville becomes a theme song writer. The Kellys, as nouveaux riches, fancy themselves disgraced by the Cohens, who follow them to Hollywood. Miss Edna May Oliver could do this to perfection but the Kellys merely blunder through in their usual way, while Kitty, in the pursuit of her art, makes burlesque melodramas for which there is no apparent reason except...
...manager, Max Carey, who is trying to turn a clownish collection of eccentrics into an orderly big-league machine, announced that he had traded Herman, Gilbert (third baseman) and Lombardi (huge catcher) to Cincinnati in even exchange for two in-fielders-Joe Stripp, Tony Cuccinello-and Catcher Clyde Sukeforth. In a trade with St. Louis, Brooklyn last month acquired a hard-hitting outfielder who may make up for the loss of Babe Herman -squat, red-faced Lewis ("Hack'') Wilson, who made 56 homeruns in 1930 and was last winter traded to St. Louis by the Chicago Cubs after...
Three years ago young Clyde Beatty, famed wild animal trainer, was attacked by a tiger. As he went down, an African lion named Nero leaped upon the tiger, knocked it across the cage. After that Nero was Trainer Beatty's favorite beast, was the tamest in the Hagenbeck-Wallace Circus. Last fortnight Animal Man Beatty was rehearsing his act at Peru, Ind. He cracked his whip over Nero's head. Nero snarled, crouched, sprang. As Trainer Beatty went down sharp teeth tore through the flesh of his leg. Assistants rushed into the cage, whipped the lion away, carried...
...dissenting opinion. The three "Liberal" justices and the pious Chief Justice who wrote the opinion, were a minority in what has since become a cause celebre. The Supreme Court, by 5-4 decision, denied U. S. citizenship to two Canadians, Rev. Douglas Clyde Macintosh, professor of theology in Yale Divinity School, Wartime chaplain, and Marie Averill Bland, Wartime nurse. Professor Macintosh announced that before bearing arms for the U. S., he should prefer to mull over moral causes. Miss Bland would not promise to bear arms at all. The majority of the Court solemnly pronounced: ". . . We are a Christian people...
Standing on the Capitol steps with Father Cox, Senator James John Davis and Representative Clyde Kelly of Pennsylvania received the army's petition for "the God-given right to work," heard them swear allegiance to the flag and sing "America," "Keep The Home Fires Burning," "Pack Up Your Troubles In Your Old Kit Bag." Their petition was read to House and Senate that afternoon...