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The guardian of Boston's theatrical morals started life as a trap drummer in burlesque houses in the days when chorus ladies carried spears. He became kettledrummer for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, but his career as a tympanist was cut short when he met with an accident and had...
In the spring when thousands of amorously barking seals follow their lovesick fancies up the coasts of Oregon and Washington toward the Pribilof Islands, their mating grounds, the U. S. sends its Coast Guard to escort them, allows them to be killed only by aborigines in canoes, using spears and...
The rest of their duty: To guard the seals on their annual submarine hegira to the Pribilof Islands from the depredations of any hunters except Indians in canoes, armed only with spears or harpoons (TIME, March 31, 1930).
Daughter of a rich California family, Caroline was early made a globetrotter by her restless mother. In China she met Maggie, also from the U. S., and became her bosom friend. When Maggie married dashing Buck Dawson, British naval officer, Caroline followed her friend to England. While she watched the...
Stepping Sisters is a loudly hilarious farce which concerns itself with the fortunes of three retired burlesque actresses who once carried spears on the Columbia circuit in the days when "it was a privilege to have your picture in the Police Gazette." They meet for the first time in 20...