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...Dayton. Tenn. There he met his friend George W. Rappelyea, chemist and coal man. Outside a rickety old Ford rattled down the dusty main street of the village (pop. 1705). The Cumberland hills beyond drew a green circle around Dayton's early summer stagnation. Perched on soda fountain stools, Rappelyea and Scopes discussed the State's month-old law against teaching evolution. They both believed in the theory, loudly agreed the new statute was ''damn nonsense." Lounging oldsters pricked up their ears when Teacher Scopes declared he was still using a biology text-book which explained...
...Author Howard McKent Barnes to write Mother's Millions and make its derivations obvious. Born in Australia 66 years ago, Actress Robson saved her pennies, now has a house on Long Island, another in California, at both of which she indulges her fondness for elaborate aviaries and collecting fountain pens. She-Wolf, is her first cinema; in it her loyal secretary Lillian Harmer plays the part of Hetty Green's servant. Der Grosse Tenor (UFA). Possibly his panoramic countenance and the slow elaboration of detail to which Cinemactor Emil Jannings is addicted have helped to convince critics that...
...unbiased, the Guild would have burned all kinds of churches if it were burning anything. Somewhat more rational speeches were made by Pumper Benjamin Franklin Affleck of Chicago, president of Universal Portland Cement Co. (he once pumped for 35? a Sunday in Belleville, Ill.); by Pumper Frank D. Waterman (fountain pens), 1925 candidate-reject for Mayor of New York City; and by Pumper John M. Gibbons, general counsel for New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, who pumped for five years without pay in St. John's Catholic Church of Honesdale. Pa. After many a rousing hymn (favorite: "Touch...
...smartchart New Yorker recently published verses by Poet Arthur Guiterman complaining that the fountain statue which confronts Manhattan's Hotel Plaza was in bad condition. Two weeks later it published a long rhymed response by Ralph Pulitzer, whose father gave the Lady of the Plaza to New York City. Excerpt...
More than 100 critics of Art and Literature crowded into a Manhattan soda fountain at No. 1410 Broadway last week. Their purposes were: 1) to imbibe what flowed from the fountain's spigots; 2) to see the room the fountain...