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...Waco (Tex.) Cotton Fair last week went a Connecticut Yankee, Charles J. Luce of Niantic, with a contraption which, like the contraption of another Connecticut Yankee, Eli Whitney, helped the southern cotton grower...
...kind of nice gait." He was called The Senator, in honor of U. S. Senator James E. Watson of Indiana. Three terms served The Senator, one with Governor Ed Jackson of Indiana, one with David C. Stephenson, onetime Klan Dragon, one with Bert Schultze, Indiana apple-grower. It was during his service with Mr. Schultze that The Senator, greedily seizing a corncob, got that same corncob stuck fast in his throat. The Senator gasped, choked, struggled, died...
British rubber magnates want the price of rubber never to fall below 42? a pound, which represents a fair profit for the average grower of plantation rubber. To maintain that price the Stevenson Plan became effective in 1919. When rubber falls below 42? growers must curtail production; when it mounts above, they may produce to capacity. The Stevenson Plan prevents loss to growers, but does not restrict their profits. And their profits may mean loss to rubber consumers, who are thus forestalled...
...second sight, it becomes quite possible. For all the effects are broad, drawn with a stub For acceptable performance, they require more consistency and steadiness than subtlety. The play depends chiefly upon three characters, the three principles of the triangle. Perhaps of these, Allan Mowbray, as the Italian grape grower eager for a wife to enjoy the sunset half of his life with him, is most realistically played. But Nan Marriett Watson as Amy, who comes from Frisco to wed him, runs her gamut of emotions with accuracy and some sweetness. Richard-Whorf, as Joe, the rolling stone...
THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED-Pauline Lord still giving the best performance in town as the scrubby San Francisco waitress who married by mail an old Italian vine-grower...