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...born in England in 1884, joined the colors as drummer boy at the age of 14, served 21 years in the British and Australian armies. His campaigning carried him to the Occupation of Crete, 1898; the South African War, 1900-02; the Tibet Expedition, 1904-05; the North West Frontier Expedition, 1908-12; Australia; Egypt; Gallipoli; France...
With Anaconda rose another mighty copperman, John D. Ryan. Copperman Ryan had been store clerk, drummer, oilman. He did business with Marcus Daly, and when Daly died, young Ryan took over his interests. Then Rockefeller-partner Henry H. Rogers invited him to take charge of Amalgamated Copper in Montana, then in the midst of the dispute with Heinze. In 1908, Rogers died and Ryan became president of Amalgamated. In 1910, it merged with Anaconda...
...travels upon the sometimes not so nimble limbs of its tap dancers. These are often the riff-raff of their profession; the finest tap dancer in the world is Bill Robinson, long a spot of interest on Keith's tours. His feet are as quick as a snare drummer's hands; in Blackbirds he has a double flight of five stairs which, when he trots up and down it, produces a rapid tuneless and delicious music. Bill Robinson makes the show; if he were on the stage more of the time he would make the show...
...stage divertissement offers Our Gene in front of some of the best scenery that every emanated from the Publix studios. The exact idea is rather difficult to grasp but it seems there was a hunting party. Mr. Rodemich's frenetic drummer is quite delighted with his little hunting cap. It's a good thing too--the boy has not been a bit contented since he wore that toga plus a hair-ribbon come these two weeks...
Silk Legs is a technical term for those grotesque and abbreviated limbs on which stocking drummers display their flimsy wares. The drummer in this case is Madge Bellamy, and as such she is successful enough to surpass the sales records of her rival who is also her lover. Actress Bellamy, moreover, is herself a not unsatisfactory stuffing for cloaks, suits, stockings...