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...those two eminently worthy old gentlemen Dr. Isaac Kauffman Funk and Dr. Adam Willis Wagnalls could have returned to earth last week to check up on their Literary Digest, they might have suffered enough of a shock to send them kiting back to their Lutheran heaven. As recently as two weeks ago there would have been no shock at all. For, two weeks ago, they would have found the Digest bearing a tasteful painting of horses & riders taking a water-jump in a steeplechase. (Not quite so happy as one Digest cover of a year ago showing a tot peering...
...police found a score of cars, their lights extinguished, parked outside. In the cellar a fairsized crowd was huddled around a tanbark pit, where, in the hard brilliance of electric light, two gamecocks were silently and gracefully tearing each other to pieces. Police arrested 23 spectators and one Gus Kauffman, proprietor of the Inn, summoned a justice of the peace who held court in the Inn, fined each of the spectators $10, Proprietor Kauffman $50. To agents of the Humane Society, which eagerly hunts cockfighters in New York State because it receives all fines imposed, went 20 gamecocks...
While Mr. Carl Laemmle, as council lot the defense has been presenting the case for the movies each week in the Saturday Evening Post. Messieurs Kauffman and Hart, the district attorneys, have offered their brief rebuttal in "Once in A Lifetime" on 401 consecutive nights at New York. The districts attorneys' case has at last reached the Majestic in Boston. The decision rests with a jury a the people who will undoubtedly offer a satisfactory compromise by applauding the Schubert's latest production and lending financial support to the movies...
...this as it may Messieurs Kauffman and Hart have written a highly amusing and penetrating satire on art as Hollywood does it. The play has to do with a group of vaudeville actors who find themselves stranded in the big city on the eve of the Vitaphone's first great practical success. There are three of them. May Daniels a wise cracking campaigner Jerry Highland who must have been the interlocutor for the skit, and George Lewis, a mental inferior who diets on Indian nuts. The girl, played by Jean Dixon, conceives the idea that Hollywood needs a school...
Died. Lieut. Col. Benjamin Brandreth McAlpin, 59, senior member of McAlpin. Kauffman, Merle-Smith & Smart (Manhattan lawyers), onetime (1908-11) inspector general of the New York National Guard, son of General Edwin Augustus McAlpin who helped found Manhattan's McAlpin Hotel, director of Greeley Square Hotel Co. (which operates the hotel), and of Women's Hotel Co.; of apoplexy; in Manhattan...