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...burlesque begins in Erskine Caldwell's novels (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre). But this new Caldwell story will not give many readers trouble, for it reads throughout like a complete travesty of the author's previous method. Journeyman is the story of an itinerant preacher. Semon Dye, the "potentest" man that ever drove a ramshackle remnant of a Model T Ford down a Georgia turnpike. Semon is a crap-shooting, corn-guzzling, philandering highbinder with a gimlet eye and a ready pistol...
...legendary character in the Georgia backwoods, he both delights and surprises white-trash Clay Horey by driving into the yard one day and demanding food, lodging and female solace from one of the "high-yallers" down the road. Horey is glad to comply until Semon makes a play for his 15-year-old wife, Dene. The novel bounces riotously from lecherous high jinks to a crap game in which Horey loses money, new car and spouse to the all-powerful Man of God. The book reaches a tropical heat-wave climax with Sunday's revival meeting in the schoolhouse...
...Smith is so fond that he named his horse for it. In the past eight weeks it has thrashed forward from $11 a share to $15. Homestake, one of North America's biggest mines and a bulwark of the Hearst fortune, has flared from $120 to $163. Jules Semon Bache's Dome Mines have gone from $11 to $13. Much speculation in McIntyre Porcupine a Canadian producer, has picked it from $16.50 to over $20. Last week Toronto's Financial Post warned: "If investors will keep in mind . . . the fact that 17½ years is required...
...Union was due to the success of the first moving picture presentation, held before the Christmas Recess, which was attended by over 300 Freshmen. The performance, which will begin at 6.45 o'clock, will include, among other comedies and some football pictures, Charles Chaplin in "The Champion", Larry Semon in "Romans and Rascals", and an all-star cast in "The Lyin' Tamer". The 1935 Union orchestra, under the leadership of J. H. Braddock '35, will provide music...
...share in its profits or losses. One member of the pool was William Frank Kenny, rich Brooklyn contractor, faithful friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith, onetime 20%-owner of the New York "Giants" baseball team (National Exhibition Co.). Since Contractor Kenny had been a Chrysler director (1925-28), since Jules Semon Bache and Edward F. Hutton were on the Chrysler board, it seemed that this big pool had a sure future. But last week the Bache and Hutton firms went to Court, said the pool had closed out on July 16, 1930, when Chrysler was $29. Member Kenny, they protested...