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...transatlantic romance between a Paris singer and a U. S. bandleader (Gene Raymond). Its real purpose -that of punctuating a series of closeups of the star which could be exciting only to her dentist-is transcended occasionally by moments of brash comedy contributed by the _ band's mercurial drummer (Jack Oakie) and its sad-visaged Communist pianist (Mischa Auer...
Edward Townsend Stotesbury, Civil War drummer boy and senior Philadelphia partner of Drexel & Co., a Morgan affiliate, surprised photographers at the Philadelphia Union League's Kindergarten Club dinner by declaring he would never again be photographed in his familiar act of beating a drum. A Kansas City woman had written him that he should be ashamed of such puerile publicity...
...front-page stories. Making insurance seem glamorous might sound like a superhuman tour de force. Lloyd's of London, rich in the atmospheric detail of all good period pieces, warm with the honest adulation which English heroes alone seem capable of inspiring in Hollywood producers, is an insurance drummer's daydream. It makes the business as exciting as a bugle call, magnificently sombre as the roll of muffled drums. Good shots: Benjamin Franklin sitting down at Lloyd's with Boswell and Sam Johnson; Lloyd's bell, rung twice for good news, once for bad, tolling...
...night in 1898 a shoe salesman and a paint salesman found themselves assigned the same room in a hotel in Boscobel, Wis. Said Shoe Drummer John H. Nicholson: "My custom is to read a portion of God's word every night and give thanks for God's care over me during the day." Replied Paint Drummer Samuel Eugene Hill: "I, too, am a Christian. Let us have our devotions together...
...family, friends and fancy have taken him so many hithers & yons about the Western World that a casual acquaintance might be hard put to name his habitat. His grandfather was a Portuguese immigrant who became a shoemaker in Philadelphia. His father, "a self-made literate," volunteered as a drummer-boy in the Civil War, was invalided out of the Army of the Potomac when he was 14. He went on to become a successful corporation lawyer, an anti-Bryan Democrat, the author of various respectable treatises on such subjects as interstate commerce, the husband of a Southern lady who presented...