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Strawberry Blonde is another play flung by Martin Brown to the Great White Way (others current: The Love Thief [nee Praying Curve], The Dark). Herein an epidemic of red-headed babies visits Astoria, Long Island, and where should suspicion light but upon the ruddy thatch of Herbie Salute, the only adult member of the community with hair to match? Herbie is reduced to lonely bachelordom for one act, but absolution and a lucky horse bring health, wealth and wisdom in time for the last curtain...
Second Game. The red thatch of Grover Cleveland Alexander is streaked with white, lines crease his broad face. In the world series of 1915 he pitched for Philadelphia. This year, cast adrift by Chicago for his roistering ways, he has brought the gospel of Ponce de Leon to St. Louis. He grew stronger as the afternoon wore on. In the third inning his teammates began to hit Shocker, the Yankee pitcher. Score: St. Louis, 6; New York...
Seventeen fur-bundled men and a fox terrier had passed in an airship completely up and over the Earth's icy pate, parting that wilderness as a comb might part the unexplored thatch of a wild man from Borneo. From Spitzbergen in Barent's Sea via the North Pole and the Pole of Inaccessibility, to Point Barrow, Alaska, they had peered out of their gondola for new lands, and in a strip of white waste 2,000 miles long by 10 to 100 wide, had spied none. They had seen seals, roaming polar bears, their own flags (Italian...
...shadowy halls and at the gates of cities, under thatch, under rafter or with no roof but their caps between them and the gaping pocket of night, men played the harp-princes, captains, jongleurs, beggarmen. Their fingers wandered the strings, their heads bent to their music. Last week, the harp was played in Chicago. Enrico Tramonti, harpist of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, was permitted by Conductor Frederick Stock to play a solo on his instrument. Widor's Chorale et Variations he played. It is a good piece of music, well adapted to harp and orchestra. Chicagoans listened with interest...
...broken ragpicker, their derelict mower of lawns or sweeper of streets? belly lurched out in a flabby bag, neck narrow and bowed to an ugly vertebrate knuckle, legs short and wobbly, feet flat and weak, head huge and misshapen, with drooling mouth, bleary, vacant eye, putty nose and unkempt thatch of hair. He is the "village idiot," the Tom o' Bedlam of an earlier day. His condition is answered for nowadays by Science as resulting from deficiency of the thyroid gland?a small vesicle in the neck that secretes a fluid essential to the vital development of nearly every part...