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Joseph Jefferson. Remembered by the last generation of theatre addicts, he made famous the role of Rip Van Winkle, which he acted for 40 years in the U. S., Australia, England. He had a son whose name is Thomas Jefferson...
...days after his visit to John Ringling's menagerie, President Coolidge received a one-animal menagerie in his office. It came in a goldfish bowl and consisted of a horned toad (Phrynosoma cornutum). Old Rip, the toad's name was, because it was supposed to have been buried in the cornerstone of the Eastland, Tex., court house, for 31 years. That it was still alive, President Coolidge could plainly see. As he discussed its merits with Senator Mayfield and some other Texans, he pointed at it, not with his finger, but with the bars of his horn-rimmed...
Burning Daylight. Milton Sills is a red-hot rip-snorter of Alaska-so hot that he calls himself Burning Daylight. He finds gold, all right. He takes it to San Francisco, where he blunders into polite society. The slick city men hornswoggle him when he plays the stock market. But, finally, by virile tactics, he gets even with them and marches out of their office with a big black bag containing $3,000,000. Then dat ole debbil Burning Daylight says to his sweetheart (Mrs. Milton Sills, the onetime Doris Kenyon): "Let's go back to Alaska." And, three...
...from Johannesburg, South Africa, via London, was made the occasion for a humorous publicity campaign by the Publishers of Trader Horn, a biography of Afric blood and thunder which the old man is said to have "dictated" (TIME, June 27). Throughout the week, Mr. Smith wandered like a puzzled Rip Van Winkle through a series of functions at which he, in contrast to most of the literati present, was creditably sober...
...Christmas Day, 1893, in Santa Rosa, Calif., was born a man who has been called a liar more often than any living U. S. inhabitant. His name is Robert L. ("Rip") Ripley. His peculiar ability is to say things that sound like lies, and then prove them to be absolutely true. His medium is a cartoon entitled "Believe It or Not," which appears daily in the New York Evening Post and 100 other newspapers. His greatest hornswoggling of the "lie"-hurlers was a drawing of Charles Augustus Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis bearing the caption: "Lindbergh...