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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wise Child. Many are the ways in which a girl can rid herself of a distasteful fiancé. One of the simpler and more startling expedients is to tell him that she is with child. Joyce Stanton (Mildred McCoy) makes this strategic confession to G. A. Appleby (Harlan Briggs). Of course it is untrue-she is inspired by the plight of the family's housemaid. Appleby is much older than she and, though he is the town's richest and noisiest citizen, his love-making under the trees is too unctuous for pretty, sensitive Joyce. Her falsehood also...
Busy Mayor G. Ramon de Paredes of Colon last week called on the Chamber of Commerce, the Municipal Council and the Rotary Club for one volunteer each. He wanted, he said, to form a "Committee of Three" to decide which of the young women employed in Colon cabarets are "artists," which, merely "female entertainers." Volunteers were not lacking...
Soon ingenious Mayor G. Ramon de Paredes had assembled his "Committee of Three," was imparting precise definitions, minute instructions. Said...
Casual, amused observers wondered if the distinction is worth making. Perhaps it is in Colon. By edict of Mayor G. Ramon de Paredes no young woman classified as an "entertainer" will be allowed to work in a Colon cabaret without a health certificate from Dr. Carlos Beiberach, Dr. Peralta Ortega, or Dr. Daniel R. Oduber. Bona fide "artists" will sing, dance or perform comic numbers uncertified...
There were also some petty jealousies. One John Boyd of Philadelphia sighed, accused two-time champion Carl G. Kaufmann, poker-faced Pittsburgh clerk, of getting all the "breaks." "I'm not a whale of a golfer myself," said Linkster Boyd, "but if I ever get a crack at Kaufmann I'll prove they grow better golfers on Pittsburgh's links." His "crack" came in the semifinals. Champion Kaufmann won, 3 & 2. In the 36-hole final round Champion-Kaufmann kept his championship, beat solemn Milton Concrant, Toledo mailman...