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...Story. Eighteen sixty-seven. Texas?immense, unorganized, full of cattle for which no profitable market could be found, cattle-rustlers, land-poor cow-barons and original sin. The Del Sol ranch?sole owner, Anastasie ("Taisie") Lockhart, redhaired, beautiful, 20-year-old orphan ?her father, Burleson Lockhart, had been murdered some years previously. Broke like the rest of Texas, Taisie was at her wits' end. Her cow hands were faithful, but she couldn't carry on forever with no money to pay them. Enter the mysterious Dan McMasters, sheriff of Gonzales, son of Burleson Lockhart's best friend...
Miss Adelyn Bushnell alternately charmed in the roles of Mary Brennan, a crook, and Margaret Waring, an, orphan heiress. She was especially good as the crook impersonating the heiress, but her performance would have been better had she differentiated the two parts...
...witnesses appeared on both sides. Former State Senator Charles W. Walton, Mrs. Belle De Rivera of the New York City Federation of Women's Clubs, Mrs. George Arliss, Mrs. Diana Belais, and others, for the " anti-vivisectionists," appealed to the legislators to prevent alleged horrible practices on poor orphan children...
...Even in the days of the American Revolution, when the Marquis de Lafayette came here to help in our fight for independence, there was no popular or personal friendship such as existed four years ago. But since the armistice an intangible barrier has arisen between the peoples. The French orphan is in danger of forgetting the help which he received from his "foster-mother" across the sea; and the American may look with distrust upon the French so-called "militaristic" attitude, and forget what France has had to suffer from German invasion. National prejudice is inevitable, and has caused...
Jacopo Corucci da Pontormo, declared Mr. Clapp, was born in 1494 near Florence. He was left an orphan when quite young and was sent to study art. He never remained long under one master, and his work shows varied influences. Very few of his paintings are well known. The one which comes the closest to being famous is his "Lunette" at Poggio. Of all his productions, those showing the greatest ability are his drawings. He died lonely and disheartened...