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...good old anatomical word in England, "bum" in U. S. parlance means a down-&-outer. But not every social outcast answers willingly to the name. Many a hobo is no bum but a journeyman worker, traveling cheaply from one seasonal occupation to another. Some "jungle" inhabitants are college graduates, may even be sociologists in search of statistics. Such a bloodhound in bum's clothing was Author Thomas Minehan. Disguising himself with apparently complete success, he spent two years' vacations traveling in boxcars, weekending in jungles, standing in mission breadlines, indefatigably taking notes. The result was the first book...
...Sculptress Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, it is an outgrowth of the old Whitney Studio Club. The Whitney Museum's director is a Mrs. Juliana Force. For the past two years she has been gathering a large collection of the unsigned portraits, landscapes and inn signs of early U. S. journeyman painters. This was to be one of the big features of the Whitney Museum's opening. Mr. Cahill is accused of admiring the Whitney Museum collection sufficiently to imitate the idea, spoil the Whitney Museum's surprise. Critics paid little attention to the Whitney-Cahill tiff but did raise surprised eyebrows...
...central idea is identical-dissection of the criminal mind by reconstruction of one criminal's career. You see James Cagney as a tough boy led into petty thieving. He moves higher, into the bigger business of robbing storage lofts. He rises to become an outstanding rumrunner and a journeyman of homicide until his bullet-spattered body is dumped in front of his mother's house. His more sentimental pal, Edward Woods, provides a milder development of the same theme. The Public Enemy is well-told and its intensity is relieved by scenes of the central characters slugging bartenders...
Pierre Belcroix (Earle Larimore), a journeyman musician, and his wife Romaine (Edna Best) are visited by an eminent amorist and violinist, Marcel Blanc (Mr. Rathbone). In no time at all the ancient triangle situation develops. As the curtain falls on Act I there is a charming scene in the virtuoso's apartment, with Miss Best lying in Mr. Rathbone's arms and humming Lehar's "Dein ist Mein Ganzes Hertz." In Act II, however, the affair becomes less idyllic. Miss Best tries to poison her husband while Mr. Rathbone is away on a concert tour. Detected by a doctor...
From then on Cowboy Will went it alone. With plenty of confidence, with more than ordinary experience for his years, he had no difficulty finding jobs as a cowpuncher. Like all his breed he was a journeyman worker; from Canada to Mexico he wandered the West. After he had begun to be known as a writer, a cowboy critic once accused him of writing a fake cowboy language, but Author James explains his variations of speech by his many changes of scenery. Only his outfit and his style of riding, says he, never changed...