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...production, his strong man act, was quite a bright spot until it died from over-exposure. Joe Cook's chief contribution to the evening's entertainment, and one which did much to justify his headliner abilities, was his interpretative reading of an incident in the life of little Johnny Skunk or perhaps it was one of the other Little Folks. Miss Del Faust did well in a song and dance role. A sort of desperate finale advertising the feminine B. V. D. comes too late, just too late

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER PAGE | 2/24/1927 | See Source »

...Grimm Skunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Executioner | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...Mount Prospect, 111., one Ernest Grimm, farmer, killed a skunk that nad long haunted the adjoining farm of his cousin, Edward Grimm. With clothespin on nose, Ernest Grimm skinned the skunk, hung the pelt in his barn. In the night Edward Grimm made off with the pelt. A skunk caught on his land, he remarked when he met his cousin next day, was his skunk. Words followed. In the lonely barnyard, Grimm fought Grimm. Ernest, with a slap of his hand, broke the nose, already inflamed, of Edward. Edward brought suit for $5,000 for assault and battery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany: Executioner | 1/17/1927 | See Source »

...Third Street to retreat to Park Avenue, meets Father Time in the ringed arena of keen dialectic, vide Bruce Barton, and wins by faith alone. "There is a God", she cries, and all the little birds fly home to their nests and old father sun winks at little Johnnie Skunk...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CRIME | 1/7/1927 | See Source »

...Garden, with the Turkish flag hanging in it, was a beautiful sight to witness, and was well worth walking across the hall for. It was a likely retreat for timid folks and couple after couple could be seen creeping up the stairs to this garden with its scent of Skunk...

Author: By D. G. G., | Title: THE CRIME | 11/19/1926 | See Source »

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