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...year-old textile magnate who quit as president of Beaunit Mills to make this movie, shot every foot of it on the scummy sidewalks and in the smelly bars of the Bowery itself. The main character is a 42-year-old, self-admitted Bowery bum named Ray Salyer (who recently refused a $40,000 contract offered by a Hollywood producer with the comment: "I just want to be left alone . . . There's nothing else in life but the booze"). Since the picture was completed, two of the principal supporting players have died from cirrhosis of the liver...
...picture's plot is as simple as a skid. A lush (Salyer) lands on The Street from nowhere in particular, blows his last buck on the booze, sells his second pair of pants to buy some more, passes out on the sidewalk, wakes up to find his suitcase stolen, takes a day's work as a crate hustler, tries to straighten himself out at the Bowery Mission but just can't stand the quiet and runs out for a quick one. That night he gets sapped and rolled in a back street, and the next morning decides...
...fellowship to J. B. Conant 2G.; John Harvard fellowship to W. B. Belknap 1G.; Edward Austin fellowships to S. C. Brooks 4G., S. H. Cross 2G., Z. C. Dickinson 1G., and A. P. McMahon 2G.; Christopher M. Weld scholarship to J. L. Moore 1G.; Willard scholarship to S. M. Salyer; Francis Parkman scholarship to A. Sachs '01; Leverett Saltonstall scholarship to J. B. Hubbard; Charles Haven Goodwin scholarship to P. P. Cram '15; James Savage scholarship to J. E. Anderson 1G.; George and Martha Derby scholarship to Y. R. Chao; Gorham Thomas scholarship to H. P. Lawther, Jr., 3G.; Scandinavian...