Word: henkel
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That was a very brave story for Dr. Hornaday to revive and it gave narrative confidence to a plain & ordinary Texan, one George Henkel, Dallas taxidermist. Said he without winking, thinking or drinking...
...unable to vote last week for the first time since 1860 when he cast his ballot for Abraham Lincoln. In Brooklyn three other Lincoln voters (one of them blind) went to the polls, voted for modification of the Volstead Act. ([ Montcalm County, Mich., has its heroine-Mrs. Ileea M. Henkel, onetime schoolteacher, wife of the former sheriff who was fatally wounded while arresting a drunk. She was appointed to serve her husband's unexpired term and conducted a vigorous war on the liquor traffic. Last week she was elected to succeed herself, having polled a vote double that...
...Herbert Richard Lorenz) is not brilliantly original, having most of the ancient elements of tear-winning hokum combined into a pathetic story which Lew turns into a highly satisfactory farce-comedy. The platform of the play is an assault on "Tin Pan Alley" and the jazz factories. Franz Henkel (Fields) is an old German composer who showed considerable promise in his youth by writing a Dresden Sonata. A university brawl, in which he inadvertently shoots another student, has forced him to flee his native land; impecuniosity compels him to do hack work in the popular music concern of Al Tyler...
...introduction of the vaudeville team of Hackett and La Marr (Sam White and Renee Noel) who bounce through a demonstration of their new and excellent dancing act, supplying much slang and local patter. The chief feeder to Fields is Jules Jordan, in the roll of Dave Loeb, attorney whom Henkel employs in his lawsuit against Tyler for the recovery of the rights to Moonlight Mama...