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...Volunteer Battalion of the West Kent Regiment: the famed King's Prize ($1,250), a gold medal and a gold badge in the National Rifle Association's meeting at Bisley Camp, England; with 289 out of a possible 300, second highest score on record. Desmond Burke of Canada, King's Prizewinner in 1924, won the Challenge Trophy, $50, and the Rifle Association's Grand Cross for an aggregate...
...that a comic-strip cannibal chieftain named Gomquotz spoke out, astonishingly, in a mixture of Russian and Yiddish. So tickled were Jewish readers that Cartoonist Harry Hershfield shrewdly abandoned both Gomquotz and his setting?a strip called "Desperate Desmond"?and created a thoroughly Jewish character, Abie Kabibble. The new strip he named "Abie the Agent." For 18 years Abie appeared every day in the Hearstpapers (syndicated by Hearst's King Feature Syndicate), until last fortnight. On the day he disappeared, something new popped up in Bernarr Macfadden's New York Graphic. It was a strip headlined: HERSHFIELD...
Three Men and a Woman. Demonstrating that sex can raise its ugly head "down under" as well as any other place on the Globe, Three Men and a Woman is concerned with the doings in a lighthouse on Cape Forlorn, New Zealand. Why the God-fearing keeper (William Desmond) married his lecherous wife (Franc Hale) is something Australian Playwright Frank Harvey does not explain. When her husband goes to the mainland, she betrays him with his assistant (old Melodramatist Walker Whiteside). When an absconder turns up with the loot of an investment company to which her husband's savings...
...probably be with Army on October 17 at West Point, since the Amherst game has been called off. The lineup: HARVARD BRIDGEWATER Powell, g. g., Nardelli Catinella, l.b. r.b., Spracklin Wemple, r.b. l.b., Lowder Wight, l.h.b. r.h.b., Carroll Waters, c.h.b. c.h.b., Morey Streeter, r.h.b. l.h.b., White Baxter, o.l. o.r., Desmond Moskin, l.f. i.r., Ciccone Gummere, c.f. c.f., Cullen Broadbent, i.r. i.l., Carreiro Schumacher, c.r. o.l., Stanley
...late Cinemactress Mabel Normand, whose career suffered when her name was mentioned in connection with the mysterious murder of Director William Desmond Taylor, and later when her chauffeur shot Courtland Dines, wealthy stockbroker...