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Extending his operations. Drew settled in Manhattan, entered the steamboat business first in competition, later in partnership with Yanderbilt. Drew it was who put the Commodore into railroads. In 1853 began Drew's association with the Erie Railroad which culminated in the scandalous "Erie War" of 1866-68. Allied with Gould and Fisk, Dan Drew dumped "watered" Erie stock on the market, sheared Vanderbilt of millions while selling Erie short. When their arrest was ordered. Drew, Gould and Fisk took $6,000,000 in greenbacks, retreated to a fortified Jersey City hotel. While the Press gasped at such, blatant...
Karl Evans, son of the president of Anchor Line Steamboat Co., a blue-eyed, outdoor youth, courted her although he was engaged to another girl. Mabel accepted his courtship with greater interest after her father forbade her to see Karl again. By a queer sort of trick. Karl married her. They lived happily, keeping the marriage a secret until Mabel became pregnant. Then a second, public ceremony was arranged. Soon after his son was born Karl was accidentally killed while hunting, Mabel's father died and she started for Paris to forget...
...Steamboat Round the Bend (Fox). When Marie Dressler died last year, Will Rogers promptly remarked: "Isn't the talking screen a wonderful thing for those who love a person? It allows them to live on after they have gone." If, as newspapers politely suggested last week, it occurred to Fox executives that Will Rogers' death last fortnight made it hard to know what to do with his two unreleased, completed pictures, this statement served as a convenient hint. Forty-eight hours after the Rogers funeral in Hollywood the first of the two, Steamboat Round the Bend, made...
...costumed melodrama of Mississippi riverboat life with Rogers as a steamboat captain, Steamboat Round the Bend in patter and pattern supplies historians with little new light on the Rogers saga. However, in addition to assuring cinemaddicts that they may still enjoy the dead actor as much as they ever did while he was alive, the picture presents a Hollywood name which may one day take its own place in cinema's sun. That, at 59, Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb becomes a minor cinema star is not entirely due to the fact that the Cobb countenance closely resembles a bull frog...
...rival steamboat captain against whom Rogers has a frantic last-reel race with their boats the stake, Cobb is completely relaxed, spending all his time on the bridge leaning on the rail, squatting, lying down, bibbing mint juleps, funneling smoke from long black cigars. When, finally, he believes the race won, he decides to take a nap. Stretching out on the bridge's settee, he closes his eyes, murmurs to the mate: "When I fall asleep, take this cigar out of my mouth. I've burned up four boats already...