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First to run off this evening will be "Dream of a Rarebit Fiend," one of the earliest examples of screen comedy. It was directed in 1906 by Edwin S. Porter...
...found a strapping woman, her two hulking sons, an Indian. The woman admired Audubon's gold watch so much that though he lay down, he decided not to sleep. The woman did not sleep either. Writes Audubon: "Judge of my astonishment, reader, when I saw this incarnate fiend take a large carving knife and go to the grindstone to whet its edge. . . . Her task finished, she walked to her reeling sons and said: 'There, that'll soon settle him!'" Just then two strangers arrived. In 25 years of wandering through the American wilderness, this...
...that they behaved any better than they used to. The 125,000 visiting Legion men engulfed Boston, held up traffic, misdirected traffic, stopped traffic. They drank, sang, played practical jokes dear to middle-aged men on a tear. They squirted water pistols on girls' dresses, stockings (one fiend used 10? perfume in his pistol). They used electric shockers (disguised as brief cases, as canes) to electrify feminine rumps (some fiends used rubber bands, which stung). With canes they impartially h'isted the skirts of women, young or old, who entered cabs, climbed steps, or boarded streetcars. For unwary...
...thwarted wherever he went by an Easter-Parade cutaway-dummy representing conformity, and a deadpan gal named Destiny. He tried to change the world with love (represented by Minsky models in black lace panties), poetry, music, facts and statistics, common labor. He pleaded with all sorts-a dope-fiend radical, a religious drunkard, a doting old man with a beard and a penchant for poetry, followed by a girl representing his sickness, a priest who stood for Capitalism, a boy with a fever of 105°. They all made the Goof cry: "I want to resign." But at the moment...
...character with whom Cleveland newspapers have curdled their readers' blood since 1934, when the first of 13 dissected torsos was discovered in the city's purlieus. Neatly beheaded, arms and legs deftly removed, the grisly remains of seven men and six women suggested the work of a fiend acquainted with the meat-chopping profession. As one killing after another came to light periodically, Cleveland's harried sheriff hired a private detective named Lawrence J. ("Pat") Lyons to work on the case...