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THEY KNEW WHAT THEY WANTED -Pauline Lord painting the portrait of a penniless Frisco waitress summoned by mail to marry an aged Italian peasant. Great acting in a good play...
...Envy, penniless, accoutred in dismal garb, ogles the fur coat of a wealthy Babbitt...
...stolen, his ship left without him, his girl was kidnapped. Searching for a short cut to town, he wandered into a swamp, was bitten by a deadly stingray; into a smugglers' camp, was befriended ; into a native train guard, was jailed, far inland. He escaped from jail, hatless, bootless, penniless; cleaned up a barroom with his good right fist (the jacket design), set out to walk to Los Agostino, 110 miles away across the Sierras, to get news of his ship, of his lady. Fierce and famishing he s journed to the wilderness. Over the hazardous ice-fields...
Died. Thomas H. Ince, 44, famed cinema producer; in Hollywood, following a sudden heart attack. An actor in his early years, he scorned the cinema, took his first motion picture job only because he was penniless. He established the first studio on the west coast at Santa Monica, Calif., christened it "Inceville," there made the first cowboy pictures...
Died. Thomas Harbaugh, 75, one of the authors of the Nick Carter Detective Stories and other dime novels; penniless in the Miami County Home, Ohio. He wrote from 300 to 600 thrillers, at the rate of one a week, with pen; later, in the days of the typewriter, he sometimes bettered his speed...