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Facts. His father was a drunkard, his mother a consumptive. But he was a rugged babe when born near Mill Springs, Mo., in 1868. Delirium tremens and Death. as they must to all such drinkers, soon came to his father; his mother sent him away to relatives. When soon after, she died also, the boy overheard the reason, heard that he too was probably marked as a victim. He determined to cheat untimely death by making himself strong. In St. Louis, in the midst of struggles to earn his living, he joined a gymnasium. Soon his muscles began to bulge...
...backstage setting have been produced. The screen critics who are betting men make a comfortable living offering eight to five that each new picture they are forced to attend will deal with the adventures of a song-and-dance team, in which the man is a lovable, but worthless, drunkard and the woman a noble creature who makes sacrifices for him. Occasionally, of course, these gamblers happen to be wrong. Then the photoplay turns out to be a merry narrative of college life, in which the students take excellent courses in tap dances and the hero, who has played listlessly...
Week End. Austin Parker, Saturday Evening Post writer, conceived this first offering of Bela Blau, Inc., prosperous and principled new producers (TIME, May 13). Among his characters he included a drunkard who, as played with strange understanding by Hugh O'Connell, is one of the season's great. Inebriates are of course familiar to the stage, but the antics of most of them seem like distorted mummery beside Mr. O'Connell's gentle and imaginative euphoria. As a chubby, post-War wastrel at a houseparty in Barbizon (just outside Paris) he may be found continuing...
This delightful, unfortunate fellow, brooding over the misery which he causes his wife (Vivienne Osborne), finally shoots himself. By that time she is leaning toward a virile magazine writer (Warren Williams) and their host and hostess have settled a domestic tiff which also involved the drunkard's buxom spouse. These people are all members of the so-called "lost generation," and their varied plights are sincerely described even though the host and the writer continually hark back to their Wartime comradeship with enthusiasm of the "You old rhinoceros!" variety...
...glass of beer is sufficient to render some men incapable of driving an automobile safely." Professor Carver agreed heartily with this argument, and added that, in the matter of drunken driving, there is more danger to a community from the actions of a moderate drinker than from a habitual drunkard. "A man" completely intoxicated is not likely to go out and drive a car, whereas a person who has but a few drinks, maybe one or two, will be allowed to drive his car, in doing which he endangers the lives of citizens. The fact that...