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...Faber Mongol Van Dyke...
...Chicago last week the Factor case was still in a stage too early to be conclusive. The only swindled English people whose names came out were a Rev. & Mrs. Arthur Travers Faber, he the rector at Hurworth-on-Tees, Durham. This rural English couple managed to lose $55,-ooo, so they claim, in stockjobbing operations conducted by Jake the Barber in London. One job was selling stock in the so-called "Glass Casket Company," a speculation peculiarly appealing to the British investor. Another time Mr. Factor was about to mail out some 300,000 glowing descriptions of a platinum mine...
...narration of Roman Holiday, Sinclair's latest attack on capitalism, is put in the mouth of an advocatus diaboli: Luke Faber, conservative New Englander. manufacturer and gentleman-driver of racing cars. He is rich, socially correct. has a mistress and a fiancee, is popular with his fellow-townsmen and a power in the local American Legion. When the Reds make trouble in Rivertown factories. Faber helps organize a raid on their headquarters. Then comes the annual automobile race, "the Rivertown classic." Faber, the local favorite, is doing well, when he blows a front tire, hits the rail and crashes...
...foot on it now and then as a Lord Chancellor must not. In 1919 he became Baron Birkenhead, in 1921 accepted a Viscountcy commemorating his wife's maiden name (Furneaux), and in 1922 was created Earl of Birkenhead with an arrogant-humorous armorial motto of his own devising Faber Meae Fortunae: "[I'm] the Smith of my own Fortune...
Death Problem. In London one Leslie Faber talked, acted in sound-film White Cargo, died shortly after its completion. Pretending uncertainty whether to exhibit-living and speaking-a man who was dead, the producers asked advice of celebrities. "Show it," said Sir Gerald Du Maurier. "Think," said someone else "what it would be if we could now have a talking motion picture of Henry Irving in The Bells...