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...chain department store. By 1929 hard work and good fortune in Oklahoma and California oil lands rewarded him with enough money to quit the Penney company and move to Beverly Hills, Year ago he bought a five-acre place at Arcadia, 15 mi. outside Los Angeles. He and his invalid wife gave a little house-warming one night last week to christen a new pavilion and swimming pool...
Senator Reed: At the present time I am defending a former official of the Government who is being sued for damages on the allegation that he compelled the payment of a tax which was in fact invalid. This man was trying to enforce a Federal statute, asserting that the tax was valid, and trying to collect it. He is now being sued for that by one of the persons who paid the tax. His interests are absolutely identical with those of the Government of the United States. I do not see why a Member of the House or Senate should...
...second feature. "Dawn to Dawn," was known earlier in its life as "The Black Dawn." Filmed against the solomn background of a desolate middle- western farm it is a profoundly stirring drama. The farmer, an invalid in mind and body, has developed a powerful and selfish love for his daughter and his every effort is directed toward keeping her for himself. The girl, excellently portrayed by Julie Hayden, has grown up in the barren solitude of the plains, and until the strange young man appears, she seems mechanical and devoid of emotion. Her casual meeting with the traveler arouses...
...profession of insurance murderer by studying medicine, chemistry and law at Marseilles. He also needed confederates. These he found in the persons of the Bavarian sisters Philomena and Catherine Schmidt who had been unofficially accused as German agents during the War. Methodical M. Sarret found the Schmidt sisters elderly, invalid husbands and insured them. The husbands promptly died and Georges Sarret pocketed most of the insurance money on threat of turning the Schmidt sisters over to the police as poisoners and War spies. From then on the business prospered. Sarret, Schmidt & Cie. made its first mistake when healthy Catherine Schmidt...
...fact that his father Charles was one of the seven brothers who owned the biggest circus in the world meant nothing at all. At seven he took up the study of the violin, followed, when he was ten, by the piano. When a football accident made him an invalid for four years he improved his voice. At 19 he began five years of study under Tanara. After a season of concert work, he had William Brady develop his voice for three years more. He made his debut in 1929 as Tonio. the clown in Pagliacci. His fine full baritone made...