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...FARNUM F. DORSEY New York City...
...Spoilers (Universal) is a great Hollywood tradition. Rex Beach wrote the Alaskan adventure tale for all it was worth 36 years ago. Eight years later Hollywood made it into a silent picture starring He-Men William Farnum...
...Version I (Farnum v. Santschi) that Hollywood and oldtime moviegoers like to recall. It set the pattern for future film brawls, became a pressagent's superlative for the ultimate in cinema scraps. It started small, but, according to Actor Farnum (still hale and hearty enough to undertake a small role in Version IV), it grew after Villain Santschi broke his nose on the first swing. Says Farnum...
...first New Haven settlers whose colony he has studied, he graduated from Trinity College (Hartford) at 21, published his first book, The River Towns' of Connecticut at 26 while associate professor of history at Bryn Mawr, married six years later, taught at Johns Hopkins before he became Farnum Professor of American History at Yale in 1910. In his office in the Hall of Graduate Studies and at his New Haven home Professor Andrews turns out his histories in longhand, while his wife goes over his writing before publication, sometimes edits a volume with him. Last month his son, John...
...fair candidate for the title of No. 1 U. S. male knitter, John Farnum Cann, unlike the Prince of Wales who took up knitting during the War but soon gave it up for polo, has knitted all his life. He learned 56 years ago when, at the age of 10 in Yarmouth. N. S., his mother found that his five brothers and two sisters wore out their stockings faster than she could supply them. From stockings, Knitter Cann progressed to sweaters, caps, and fancy afghans. He grew up, married a girl who liked to knit, adopted the profession of male...