Word: hobo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...audience's spines and leaves everyone grasping the plush cloak-hanger ropes. In the lantern-lit interior of an empty refrigerator car ride four characters, the weeds of humanity's garden, playing poker--an unctuous card-sharping deacon, an Italian escaped convict, a thug, and a young hobo, who has had a conventional background. As the freight pulls out of a middle Western town, a girl disguised as a boy hops it. The crowd, not deceived, cuts the deck for her. The deacon wins. Smash goes the lantern. A shot, and a couple leap from...
...present play was born between the pages of Beggars of Life, a hobo biography by Jim Tully. Mr. Anderson borrowed the characteristics of Mr. Tully's dusty nomads and one of his incidents to make a narrative. It is the story of a child of bitter misfortune, a girl seduced by her stepfather and driven by circumstances into a disorderly house. When she had earned a snatch of leisure and money for the trip, she paid a visit to the family, leaving the house unceremoniously, and its owner shattered with lead pistol-slugs...
...girl; the scene on board the ocean liner in which the stunted erstwhile prospector, now in purple and fine sable, lounges on the first cabin, his heart aswoon for a vanished barmaid . . . while down in the steerage the girl tosses on her midnight pallet, wishing for her hobo-brummel. . . .The audience in the Egyptian Theatre made comments on the picture. . . .An epic in comedy . . . Gloria Hale, his new leading lady, a most adept young actress . . . Good support by a comedian named Mack Swain . . . . An epic in comedy, written, directed, acted by a man who understands that the cinema...
...said Jones. Then he cornered Arootoo! . . ." Such statements, several to the page, enlighten this novel by Robert W. Service, loud versifier. The narrative concerns one Jerry Delane, whose career as a respectable member of society is cut short by an unjust imprisonment for safecracking. He becomes a pug, a hobo, a beachcomber, breaks noses in Frisco, hearts in Papeete. All these things Mr. Service has himself experienced; he also was once a reporter-doubtless a good one. In this book he has written a thrilling news-story...
...called a plot. But there are plenty of interesting adventures and extraordinary characters and one can recommend this story (which begins in an oculist's office with a pair of near-sighted eyes) to anybody?which means everybody?who has ever cherished a secret ambition to become a hobo...