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...Dead (by Hans Kottow; Al Woods, producer). Ten or 15 years ago, long before he played the muddled cinema director in Once In A Lifetime, Hugh O'Connell found steady employment in that cycle of dramas which began with Twin Beds and lasted through Getting Gertie's Garter and Up In Mabel's Room. Looking back on those days, it amuses Actor O'Connell to recall one trick of his that never failed to wring hysterical whoops from his audience: slowly pulling off his pants and flinging them at the chandelier. "After that I could just...
...last month Ernest Davis, water department foreman of St. Charles, Ill., saw in the corner of the municipal pump-house a 10-in. garter snake entangled in a spider web. How the snake got in its predicament neither Foreman Davis nor anyone else knew. Next day Foreman Davis looked to see if the snake was still there. It was. With threshing tail it had ripped the web to shreds, but several strands still held its head fast. The spider, warily keeping to the upper part of the web, was busily spinning fresh strands to strengthen...
From Chicago the Illinois Humane Society dispatched an indignant note to Mayor Langum, threatening prosecution. One night last week Mayor Langum quietly made his way to the pumphouse, unlocked the door. His flashlight glittered on a pair of scissors. The Mayor snipped. Next day St. Charles's garter snake was fed milk in a corner of the pumphouse, later exhibited in a jar in the window of a butcher shop. On the jar was a sign: O LORD. PLEASE HELP ME TO KEEP MY NOSE OUT OF OTHER PEOPLE'S BUSINESS...
...Pittsburgh last week, a householder discovered a six-in. garter snake trapped in a spider web. The snake dangled helplessly while the spider skipped up and down his rope, biting at his opponent viciously. After two days the duel ended. The snake was dead. In Burlingame, Calif., a snake and a spider lived together in a bottle at police headquarters without hostility...
...Joseph Austen Chamberlain, today 68, who retired with the Garter after winning the Nobel Peace Prize as British Foreign Secretary (TIME...