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...Glace Bay. Last week "Tossy" MacPherson, father of seven girls and a boy, was on the night trick. He slept until midday, had a noon meal and then, carrying his supper in a lunch box, walked a quarter-mile to Dosco's Sydney & Louisburg Railway to catch the "Hobo," a work-train of boxcars fitted with benches...
...Hobo took Tossy to the washhouse of No.1B mine. Changed into pit clothes, he walked across to the shafthead, only 55 ft. from the Atlantic shore, and rode 670 ft. down in a coal cage in less than a minute. Because the seams run far under Glace Bay, Tossy's Orphean journey was just beginning. Next came a long ride in a motor rake (a train of coal cars pulled by an electric locomotive) to a point 1,800 ft. below the sea bed. Then, on the No. 6 incline rake (a cable car), Tossy rode...
...mates and attacking them with bites, as Mr. Cain's earlier heroes did, Jack never once smells a girl; he responds to visual appeal. It is, in fact, at the point that he does not respond to it-when he has been riding the rails as a hobo for some months and a Petty girl strips and wiggles for him in a passing compartment -that he realizes he will have to do something (i.e., steal) to regain his manhood. The emotional crisis is at length resolved by an oilman's wife whose hair curls to her shoulders, whose...
...could probably still give distinction to a show. As in The Pirate, Miss Garland does a comic tramp dance, with teeth blacked out. She is very cute at this but, after all, she has other talents; it will be a pity if she gets typed as a hobo. Now & then the picture has real gaiety and flow. More often, it just ambles along. Considering its assets, it is by no means as good as it ought to be. But, considering the hot weather, you could do a lot worse...
...Maid was originally written for the perishable market place of radio. It is a near-slapstick story of a small-town spinster who plays hostess to a hobo until he runs off with her maid and car. The libretto is a gag-writer's dream, filled with skillful swoons (by Marie Powers, star of The Medium), gay tunes, and amateur-theatrical hamming. The audience loved every minute of it, right down to the final clinch and the hero's preposterous curtain line-"Your mouth is an abyss...