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...former president of the Harvard Engineering Society. he is a director of the Employers Mutual Insurance Company, a trustee of the United States Savings Bank, a director of the Reconstruction Hospital, secretary of the Contractors Protective Association, and a member of the board of managers of the Roman Catholic Orphan Asylum...
...Newman Haldeman was publishing the Louisville Journal and had a son, William Birch, but 14 years of age. The Journal was suppressed because of its Southern sympathies and some two years later the son ran away from Forest's Academy to enlist in the 9th Kentucky Infantry, the famous Orphan Brigade (Confederate). He fought at Chickamauga and was wounded. Then he shipped as a midshipman in the Confederate Navy. But gunboat service was not exciting enough for him. He went back to his old company and finished the war with...
...uncontrollable and ghastly laughter. Sorrowfully Tito tells his story to Gambella and is advised to go and see "Flik", the mountebank of the Paradiso, and laugh again. "But I am Flik!" Attracted by the strange opposites of their disease, Flik and Ravelli are becoming friendly, when Simonetta, the orphan waif brought up by Flik, enters the office. A vacation, strolling through the nearby countryside, is decided upon then and there by the three, and Luigi's latest adventure in love has begun...
Then she goes back to her old home in Beldingsville, Vt., lives with her Aunt Polly. Here it was that she had arrived some years before (in Pollyanna), a forlorn little orphan determined to play the "glad game." This was the same little corner she had brightened before, and naturally it falls on its neck to make her welcome, it has not forgotten the wistful little minister's daughter who even found something to be "glad" about when a pair of crutches was all that came for her in the missionary barrel...
...poor little rich boy. In his latest picture, made from Ouida's classic, A Dog of Flanders, Jackie does just what you might expect a small-time vaudevillian to do under given circumstances. There are many points of wistful appeal in the tale of the little Dutch orphan, persecuted by the narrow village as a tiny vagabond, who wins a prize and recognition with his drawing just as the snow mounts higher and higher around his ragged clothes. He shows his amazingly facile versatility by running through all emotions, by doing a clog dance and even by doing...