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Born at Ottumwa, Iowa, of a father who ran away from home to participate as a drummer-boy at twelve on the battlefield of Shiloh, Honore Willsie Morrow has led a life that has been a consistent development toward the goal which she has sought. Her childhood was spent in the West and it is of the West that she has written. Her stories are vivid, decisive tales of plain and hill. They are filled with excellent background and quick characterization. They move rapidly. They are good stories, probably the best of all the western stories. Mrs. Morrow herself...
Saturday Night A shopgirl out for a blow, who seems to be derived from O. Henry, is worshipped by a jazz-drummer with a soul above percussion. Naturally, like any stage shopgirl, she falls prey to a wily villain with a wife. When the wife and a cop turn on the girl in a gaudy den of pleasure, she jumps out of a, window as the best way to avoid an explanation. Unfortunately, a tree outside breaks her fall. She lives. The play doesn't. It is a violent melodrama, a case of theatrical hiccoughs...
...paid to specialty combinations than has been customary in previous years. With this end in view the management is calling especially for men who play the cornet or the from bone to play in the jazz band; for men who play saxaphones for the saxaphone quartet: and for a drummer for the Banjo Club. A quartet and a double quartet are also being organized and men are needed for these...
...record, but far in excess of the normal increase attributable to growth of population. Heads of colleges are seriously considering the question of limiting the number to be received. Some colleges have been compelled to reject applicants. It is no longer necessary for a college president to act as drummer for the Freshman class...
Francis Davis Millet, born in 1846, served in the Civil War as a drummer boy, enlisting in 1861 at the age of 15. He entered College in 1865, and at the end of his course spend several years studying at Antwerp. He was for some time a newspaper correspondent for the Boston Advertise, and during the Russo-Turkish War and the Spanish War reported for the London Daily News and the New York Herald. In the field of art he ranked among the most prominent of American mural decorators and medal designers...