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From some references to her Memories in Lorenzo in Taos, readers might have supposed that Authoress Luhan's autobiographical purpose was to rip off the veils and drawers of Victorian hypocrisy. But very little is removed in this first...
...made good use of its tax exemption privilege. The posthumous reports of Mr. Solomon's wit may be exaggerated, but he surely told no one he was conducting an athletic organization." If the Pentecostal brethren chose to believe that he was somnolence or mendacity must be their alternatives. And Rip van Winkle must yield to Mr. Pecksniff in the fine art of spinning law suits...
...corpses, an armored car with no end of gangsters, a lunatic, and a number of amiable and stupid minions of the law, but the answers are all there in the end. And so are Joan Blondell, the wise little girl from Three Rivers, Illinois, and Wallace Ford, the rip-roaring cow-puncher from Peach Springs, Arizona, in each other's arms. It's very sweet, and all so terribly exciting. The horrid audience just would insist on laughing the rude things...
Actor Joseph ("Joe") Jefferson (Rip Van Winkle) began his career at the age of 4 when he was dumped out of a bag on a Washington stage to do a blackface song & dance...
...entertain them for the publicity which all such charity performances are accorded by the city's press. He was ''Powder River Jack" Lee, a leathery, garrulous, honest-injun cowboy from the wild old West. Wearing a ten-gallon hat and brightly decorated chaps he sang rip-roaring cowboy songs in a voice which he says will carry 300 yards against the wind. He bucked and reared as if he were riding a snorting bronco. He played a harmonica with his nose. He sang "Never Tie a Knot in a Billy Goat's Tail'' while...