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Beginning next Monday at the Hollis Theatre is C. L. Anthony's romantic comedy, "Autumn Crocus" with Rollo Peters and Mabel Taliaferro in the starring roles...
...waxworks at Coney Island (N. Y.), funpark, figures of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, James John Walker, Leon Trotsky, John Joseph Pershing, Gaius Julius Caesar, Decimus Junius Brutus, Jean Paul Marat & tub, Henry VIII, Mr. & Mrs. Tom Thumb were melted out of existence. Others who suffered: George Washington (broken nose), Booker Taliaferro Washington (complexion blackened), Charlotte Corday (loss of eyes), Marie Antoinette (decapitated). A fireman was injured, a dog shot, a cat burned to death. Rescued were Watchman Conrad Golly and eight Japanese billiardists...
...years since Booker Taliaferro Washington, with a shanty, a church, a teacher and 30 students, founded an institution to minister to the Negro's greatest needs: industrial training, agricultural development, inter-racial goodwill. Tuskegee now has 2,000 acres of land, 120 buildings valued at $2,000,000, an endowment of nearly $8,000,000. There is no white man among its 270 teachers and 3,600 students enrolled in high school, college and summer school courses. Because Dr. Washington wished to "put brains and skill into the common occupations of life," Tuskegee has remained an industrial school...
...Booker Taliaferro Washington Jr., son of the late great blackamoor educator, was sued by his wife, Mrs. Nettie Hancock Washington, in a cross-complaint against his divorce action, in Los Angeles. She objected to his boasting of his father, taking credit for many of the virtues of the deceased. Each accused the other of infidelity...
...glimpses of Harlem and faked pictures of lynchings. Obviously, such material was intended to boost the Negro circulation of the Graphic. But the sheetlet, in its exuberance for the sensational, went too far and stepped on the toes of many a Negro when it set about to flay Booker Taliaferro Washington. Said the Graphic: "There are not lacking thousands of intelligent Negroes who believe that Booker T. Washington, consciously or unwittingly, betrayed his color and his kind...