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...Buffalo G. O. P. machine is behind grey-haired, dignified Judge Kenefick who up to last week had not formally avowed his candidacy. Conservative in mind and manner, this candidate, like Colonel Donovan, was once "just a poor Irish lad." Western New York has not forgotten that appealing phase of his career and now sees in Judge Kenefick an able, prosperous lawyer who has given generously of his time and money for Buffalo's advancement...
AMOS THE WANDERER?W. B. Maxwell?Dodd, Mead ($2). How Amos, a village-lad, leaves home and father; well-told...
...Everglades a demented professor (William Ingersoll) grows a gigantic spider. He is assisted by a Japanese butler (Harold deBecker) who wants the formula to grow big Japanese. Into this setting presently appear all the characters requisite for mystery melodrama: two escaped murderers, two pursuing officers, a golden-hearted lad of the swamps who doubts his fitness to marry the professor's niece because his father "has snake's blood in his veins," a reporter for the Associated Press, an eloquent thunderstorm. The spider runs amok, hangs the two convicts from the rafters, drains them of blood...
When young Danny Handby refuses with tears to take another bundle of household goods to the pawnbroker, to piece out his father's wages from the mines, his mother sorrowfully tells him what must be his life's philosophy: "It's not what tha wants, lad, it's what tha's got to do." At 14 he wants to earn some money for his family, but he has got to become a coal miner to do that. Down into the pithead goes Danny among the sooty veterans who, when they stop to think, curse...
...cycle of poems by Danish Jens Peter Jacobsen. Waldemar loved Tove (Soprano Vreeland) with a deathless love, kept her in a castle at Gurre near Elsinore where royal Hamlet lived. Softly, exquisitely the strings described their passion for one another. Then Helvig, Waldemar's shrewish wife, lad Tove killed. A wood dove (Contralto Bampton) told the tragedy, how Tove's heart was still and the King's own heart strong still, dead and yet strong. . . . It was intermission. In the bleachers the choristers, who had not sung at all, stood up, stretched their legs...