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Colored Trinity. Out of gratitude for a loan of a few thousand dollars-made a couple years before when he was in a tight squeeze-generous, square-shooting John Roxborough gave Julian Black, Chicago ex-gambling-house operator, a half interest in Joe. Meanwhile Roxborough grew fond of the good-natured, easygoing lad, took him home, taught him to brush his teeth, take a bath, eat with a knife & fork. He got Joe a job as an unskilled laborer at the Ford Motor plant, dressed him in castoffs, gave him $5 a week for spending money...
...Fond of sweets, too, he is. What you call candy over here. Keeps a bottle of sweets on the bridge. Well, we're fond of sweets ourselves and every now and then we manage to pinch one or two. It's a matter of keepin' one eye on the bottle of sweets and one on the Admiral like. There'd been some complaints about it, and I heard the flag officer say: 'Shall I take your bottle of sweets down to the cabin, sir, and put 'em away?' And old Splash Guts answers...
...thin, bespectacled wag named Ted Elton Sherdeman, whose wife, a veteran radio actress, assists him. Nobody is more amused by Latitude Zero than Ted Sherdeman. During rehearsals, which are gagged up to the limit by the cast, he sits amiably giggling at his delirious brain child. He is fond of such tricks as introducing a kind of Latin double-talk for his eerier characters. Sample: Fora consumatio est ramus malin rite confedo saluero. The show was put on a coast-to-coast hookup after 17 weeks on a local circuit, and has a large and loyal following in the Pacific...
...young people have a great American thirst to improve themselves. They are the nouveaux riches of culture, fond of words like "whence," "whereof" and "elucidate." A beautiful word like "osculation" serves Bella the double purpose of showing both learning and gentility...
...hesitate to beat its chest. This is the story of an ugly party named Bert Coonrod who shoots one of his companions on a deer hunt not quite for the sheer pleasure of shooting him. Mr. Parker could do without the sections of italicized rumination of which he seems fond, and if he were handling other material, we should expect him to solve his problem more satisfactorily than he does here. If melodrama is not given to solving problems, no more should it ruminate...