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...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...
...good many other "milleniumites" find themselves in the predicament of the hobo stage director brought up short by the uncompromising necessity of going to work. But first comes an interval when most men play with the idea of going somewhere and "getting away from it all". The much quoted "Go West, Young Man" legend has brought to the Pacific dozens of dreamers filled with ideas of immediate prosperity, but with no more definite notions of how to get it than Captain John Smith's followers had at Jamestown three hundred years before...
...Workshop presented "Slug", its first production this year, last night at 8 o'clock at Agassiz House. The play deals with hobo life in the Northwest...