Word: sinbad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...gives money to beggars, is shrewd at driving bargains, has been known to refuse several thousand dollars to sing for five minutes at a private party on the ground that at a party his status must be either that of host or guest. His best shows were Bombo and Sinbad, his pictures The Jazz Singer and The Singing Fool. Last winter he improved his standing by marrying Ruby Keeler, a popular little tap-dancer tutored by Mary Louise (''Texas") Guinan...
Died. Eddie Foy, 70, famed well-loved buffoon, star of Cinderella (1889), Sinbad, Ali-Baba, and many another early musical comedy, hero of the Iroquois Theatre fire when he was the last man to leave the stage; of heart disease; in Kansas City, Mo., while on a farewell vaudeville tour...
...gallery. In the oil painting room, two of the notable canvases are Marooned, and the Flying Dutchman-formidable pirate figures with Pyle's characteristic contrasts of color masses and sombre realism. There are Revolutionary War scenes, one small watercolor, illustrations for Pyle's own stories, A Modern Sinbad and the Pilgrimage of Truth (the latter painted on mahogany), and pen-and-ink sketches for many stories and articles originally published in Harper's Magazine...
...Sinbad of Hindus Writes an Autobiography...
...Significance. In the first place the exciting and vivid recital, told with candor and humor, of a pilgrim in search of true wisdom, West and East-a recital punctuated with adventures as odd as any of Sinbad the Sailor's. In the second, an illuminating and informative exposition, both of the India that tourists never see, and the America of which many of our self-elected " leaders of thought" still deny the existence. Most interesting of all perhaps, the reactions of an Eastern mind to both Oriental and Occidental civilizations and ideals-set down without hasty intolerance or propagandizing...