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...element which is almost impossible to explain?an element of spontaneity and charm. Typical shot: Heather having fun with a musical bottle which tinkles when she lifts it. Janet Gaynor's first noticeable role in the cinema was that of a girl who got wet in The Johnstown Flood. Before that she had been a clerk in a San Francisco lawyer's office, a public school student in the dozen or more cities where her stepfather Harry C. Jones ("Jonesy" to her) plied his trade of electrician. Now in Europe, Cinemactress Gaynor generally prefers Honolulu for her holidays. A Honolulu...
...Cross is one of the most beautiful flowers of the American spirit. . . . Like so many benign social agencies, it sprang from the mind and the heart of a woman. Clara Barton was in her own person and her own life all that the Red Cross has since become. . . . The Johnstown flood found her ready and within an hour after it was reported she was on her way to the stricken city. . . . Clara Barton did not look to government for support of her work. Governments are always too slow, frequently too shortsighted, to meet the sudden sharp demands of critical emergencies...
...chest cities this year include: Alliance, Ohio; Johnstown, Pa.; Springfield, Mo.; Clinton, Iowa; Hazelton, Pa.; Stamford, Conn.; New Philadelphia, Ohio. And doughty Blacksburg, Va., with a population of less than 2,000 and the smallest of all chests. They hoped to raise $800 for a chest, actually gathered...
Unlikely to forget the Johnstown Flood of 1889 is Jacob Leonard Replogle, potent retired U. S. steelmaker. The direct result of the flood upon 13-year-old Master Replogle was that he was carried several miles downstream, clinging to the onetime roof of his onetime home. The indirect result was that, his family penniless, he entered the steel industry as an office boy for Cambria Steel. Rapidly he climbed, his invention of a thread-rolling machine giving him additional impetus. In 1916, a director and member of the executive committee, he was instrumental in selling Cambria's control...
Chain Groceries. By adding last week the 62 units of the Cupp Grocery Co. (Johnstown, Pa.), to its chain, American Stores Co. brought its total of stores...