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...stuff of dust-jacket writers' dreams. His life read better than other novelists' plots. Before he was out of his teens he had, among other things, shipped on a sealing expedition to the Bering Sea, worked 14-hour days in a California cannery, ridden the hobo rails cross-country and served 30 days in a Buffalo jail for vagrancy. A heavy drinker by the age of 16 with a voracious appetite for undercooked meat and slightly overripe women, he gave every promise of going on to become a late-19th century rebel without a cause-one of those...
...Communist Party, USA, Seeger refused to answer, saying that it was none of the committee's business, and that he resented the insinuation that he was somehow unpatriotic because he had aligned himself with the poor and the oppressed in their struggle against injustice. "I have sung in hobo jungles, I have sung for the Rockefellers," Seeger told the committee, "and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody...
...Gedirey. Another William Powell picture, where at the beginning he plays a hobo and looks curiously like a late sixties movie hero, unshaven, gritty, and intense. But the burn gets adopted by a decadent wealthy family (one member is Carole Lombard), and Powell turns debonair again as the butler who reforms the family. Made in 1938 by Gregory La Cava. This, along with limitation of Life are showing Friday night (Godfrey at 9 p.m., the other at 7:30 and 11 p.m.) as part of the excellent Hollywood Film Series that's been going on at BU's Sherman Auditorium...
...analyzed the 1929 Depression: "Nobody is actually starving. The hoboes, for example, are better off than they have ever been. One hobo in New York got ten meals...
...John Beecher were a character actor instead of a poet, he could play all the best parts in a pageant of America past. He has the face for roles as a Confederate general, a turn-of-the-century president of Harvard, or even the most distinguished presence in the hobo jungle, the man everyone calls "Gentleman Jack...