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...cold ashes of the oldtime mining boom town. In the centre of Central City (year-round population: 300) is the massive stone Opera House where once Edwin Booth, Joseph Jefferson and Rose Coghlan played to rowdy frontier audiences, and where the Passion Play was given in stereopticon pictures. The contractor Brothers McFarlane built it in 1878 on the site of a horse corral. When the mining boom spread away to west & south, mountain rats took Central City over. Rain streaked the Rhenish landscape on the Opera House curtain and the gaudy murals done by a forgotten painter named Massman...
...when the old schoolhouse in his native Van Hornesville. N. Y., burned down, Mr. Young gave a new one whose eventual cost may be $1,000,000. The handsome, well-equipped school, with teachers' homes across the way, was built by local artisans without the aid of contractor. On a bronze tablet listing the builders Mr. Young appears as "Rocking Chair Consultant." In his speech last week he called his school, with its radio, cinema, library, swimming pool and playgrounds, "the social centre of the community." Said he: "In that field it is doing what our churches used...
...recess for three days to allow all to recover their voices. Then once again the court convenes, and 32 veniremen having been dismissed (19 for cause, 13 by peremptory challenges), the jury is complete. The jury consists of a hotel manager, a clerk, a publisher, a traffic manager, a contractor from The Bronx, etc. One of them is an architect hailing from Groton, Yale, and the Beaux-Arts, another a Parkavian civil engineer. The vital first act is over. If Mr. Mitchell is convicted it will not be by the prejudices of a proletarian jury...
Mickey Mouse's creator, Walter ("Walt") Disney is a slim, sharp-faced young man (31) of Irish-German descent. His father, a contractor, let him study drawing for a few months at the Chicago Art Institute before the family moved to Kansas City. He spent six years of his childhood on a Missouri farm watching the animal ancestors of Mickey's pals. In school he early learned the schoolboy trick of drawing figures on the margins of his textbooks, graduating the poses on succeeding pages so that when he flipped the leaves rapidly, the figures seemed to move...
...Manhattan, Mr. & Mrs. Miller Durs had their two-room bungalow set on wheels, engaged Joseph Schiro, trucking contractor, to tow7 them to Babylon. L. I. They came to a halt in East 58th Street when the driver unhitched his truck, left the bungalow stranded because a patrolman found it had no trailer license. While courts, police and lawyers bickered over contracts, licenses, and sanitation laws, the Durs cooked, ate. slept in the bungalow, got a summons for parking overtime, reached Babylon two days late...