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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Somebody heard little Walter Winchell sing in a Harlem cinema house when he was 13, found him a sing-song job in Gus Edwards' Newsboy Sextet. That year, "incorrigible," "stupid," he quit school. Soon he was touring with a "gel," applauded by a few and egged by many as he hoofed and sang. As his voice grew deeper, his singing grew worse. After being laid off, in Durham. N. C., he fed chickens on a boxcar to get back to Manhattan. During the War he was Sailor Winchell...
...Bill Hart, famed for his narrow eyes, long upper lip, big hat, quit making western pictures three years ago. Some people said he was writing his autobiography, others that quarrels with his wife had broken his heart. He lived on a ranch somewhere and was only seen in Los Angeles one afternoon when he went to the funeral of a cowboy friend of his. Last week he signed with Hal Roach to make an all-talking horse-and-pistol picture...
Prof. Rogers urged the students to quit eating in one-arm lunch rooms and hanging around hotels and dance halls. He told them they should join the University Club, where they could live and eat like gentlemen and mix with the kind of people they should mix with...
Sirs: In reading your magazine of April 29, I note on page 26 under the caption "Life, Tom Mix last week agreed to quit cinema and work for the 101 Ranch Wild West Show for the rest of his career. Alleged inducement: $15,000 per week." Mr. Tom Mix has a signed contract with the Sells Floto Circus Company for his services starting on May 26 and lasting-I hope forever. . . . ZACK TERRELL...
...already out. But they found it hard to keep members at work ?members who glanced out of mill windows to see strikers idling in the sunshine, who realized that they were in effect supporting those strik ers by their labor. Many a new union member was tempted to quit the mills and join the "free grub" line in the sunshine...