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Irene Dunne, who stepped from opera and musical leads (Show Boat) to cinema character roles that carried her from youth to grey old age (Cimarron, Show Boat), put her foot down last year, demanded comedy. Her astonishing hoe-down interlude in Show Boat indicated her aptitude for lighter things. Theodora Goes Wild gave her the first full-length try. The Awful Truth establishes her with her peers, Claudette Colbert and Jean Arthur...
...brought news of the capture of Vera Cruz to President James Knox Polk before his own War Department heard about it. With speed in harvesting news, Publisher Abell also wanted speed in printing it. and to this end, he and his Philadelphia partners were first to use the Hoe cylinder press.* Next great progressive step of the Sun was its Iron Building, put up in 1851, first office structure in America made on the steel-frame principle of the modern skyscraper. Here the Sun settled down for a heyday which was ended by the Civil...
...Alfred A. Knopf ($3.75). -After these revolving presses had been in successful operation at the Sun and Public Ledger for two years, the London Times was still solemnly assuring its readers that the Hoe cylinder was a physical impossibility...
...Examiner's roster of one-time contributors, including: Ambrose Bierce, Joaquin Miller, Mark Twain, Gertrude Atherton, Richard Harding Davis, Kathleen Norris, Charles Michelson. Developed on the Examiner were Cartoonists "Tad" Dorgan, "Bud" Fisher, Homer Davenport. The Examiner first published Edwin Markham's "The Man With the Hoe" and Staffwriter "Phinney" Thayer's "Casey at the Bat." Both were reprinted in the Examiners "Golden Jubilee Edition...
Clutching a flopping, broad-brimmed black hat and four books of his verse (The Man with the Hoe, Lincoln and Other Poems, The Shoes of Happiness, Eighty Songs at Eighty), hoary Poet Edwin Markham, 84, hobbled feebly into a Brooklyn court whither he had been summoned on petition of his sister...