Word: cobblers
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...scene is a workers' club in a slum rife with Jack-the-Ripper murders; the stranger is an egotistical, foreign-born young cobbler (Eduard Franz) who is suspected of committing them. But from the outset he is made to seem so guilty that you never for a second doubt his innocence. Hence there is little suspense. With all the murders occurring off stage, there is even less excitement. And for all the flaring gaslight, there is no disturbing atmosphere. The play's long suit, indeed, is talk. But the orating of the workers, the gabbling...
...course of their long voyage out, you get some sense of knowing the whole 3,000-odd personnel, from the cobbler and barber and tailor to the princely-looking royally treated pilots...
Birth of a Crusader. A few months later in Manhattan an itinerant Yankee cobbler, house painter, fiddler, schoolmaster and inventor named Rufus Porter boldly started a weekly called Scientific American. Last week Scientific American, publishing its 100th anniversary issue, paused to celebrate an eventful career...
Down to Moscow's rainswept airport dashed the great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandson of the Duke of Marlborough-Winston Churchill. With him dashed the cobbler's son from Tiflis. Never before had Joseph Stalin made such a good-will gesture to any visiting foreign statesman. Stalin was all smiles. He had been ever since his talks with Churchill began in the Kremlin ten days...
Last week West Derbyshire chose the cobbler's son, gave Winston Churchill and his Coalition Government a resounding sock in the eye. The vote: for slim 26-year-old Lieut. William John Robert Cavendish, Marquess of Hartington, 11,775; for paunchy, greying (52) independent socialist Charlie White...