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...Angeles evangelist, and her husband Brother David L. Hutton, 30, 25O-lb. dimpled tenor, paused in Manhattan on their way to Boston to conduct a nine-day revival. Sister Aimee was svelte and blonde; on her last visit, newsmen recalled, she was plump and redhaired. Of her husband she said: "The first time I heard David sing was four months ago. He was singing 'Nay, I Will Not Let You Go,' and as I listened I felt myself blush to the roots of my hair. . . ." In Boston Mayor James M. Curley pointed out that Texas Guinan had promised...
...tries to flee the house. In desperation Mr. Marble wheedles him into taking a farewell glass of whiskey. Mr. Marble is an amateur photographer and into the whiskey he pours some of the cyanide of potassium which he uses for developing. From that moment doom slowly continues to embrace plump, puffy Mr. Marble...
...sitting, eats twice as many grapefruit, breakfasts on cornflakes which he prefers to pulverize by wrapping them up in a bath-towel and pounding the towel on the floor. Friendly, sociable, he likes to frighten the patrons of cabarets with his ferocious grin. For dancing companions, he prefers smallish, plump girls to one of whom (Emelia Tersini) his engagement was rumored and denied during the last year...
...Editor Anthony's friend, plump, baldheaded, Phil Rosa, who worked with him on Life and Judge, was recently hired. He comprises the Staff...
Side Show (Warner). The romance of the circus, the glamour of sawdust, calliopes, and spangles has long been celebrated in song & story but particularly in stories written for the cinema. This one follows the accepted outline. It gives glimpses of a circus train in motion; a plump bibulous circus-proprietor; a moth-eaten lion ; a fight in which the circus performers are attacked by the population of a small town and they defend themselves with brickbats and fists, shouting the traditional "Hey, Rube!" loudly and frequently. The local color is not new but it is fairly well done. The story...