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Old Clothes. Jackie Coogan is still one of the greatest of actors, but his stories are getting just a trifle tiresome. This latest, perilously parallel to The Rag Man, shows him as a boy business man and a lover's confidant. Yet any picture with Jackie Coogan is good...
Charles Ranlett Flint was born in Thomaston, Me., in 1850. His people had always been shippers; he, looking-for his first job, went to "every shipping office in Manhattan," but no one would hire him. Thereupon he wrote himself a reference, had cards made which declared him to be an...
Died. Lord Knollys, 87, onetime confidant to Queen Victoria; in London. He served the late King Edward as private secretary and filled the same office for King George, until age forced his retirement. He was a lifelong friend of the Queen Mother, Alexandra, now going on 80. Possessor of innumerable...
Triumphant virtue thumps splendidly in the chaste breast of Johanna Oakley, his faithful hoopskirted light-of-love; the gallant thorax of Colonel Jeffrey of the Indian Army, confidant and sub-hero. Thirteen other characters, broadly "in period,' pad out the piece to bursting.
Indiana "Hoosiers" known to every proverbial schoolboy include Authors Tarkington, Nicholson, Ade; Politicians Marshall, Beveridge, Ralston, New, Hays, Watson. But when the banker thinks of Indiana he thinks of Evans Woollen, a banker whose fortune is moderate, whose perspicacity unsurpassed. Friend of authors and confidant of politicians, Mr. Woollen is...