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Even before Arthur B. Davies' death in 1928, Mrs. Rockefeller had developed a sharp nose of her own for talent. Tramp ing through galleries, she has spotted many a promising newcomer. She was the first collector to buy a painting by an aged Pittsburgh housepainter named John Kane, who before his death in 1934 became the high-priced rage of the modern art world (TIME, June 3 et ante}. She was one of the first to buy from the eccentric Louis Eilshemius...
Aged Uncle Elie and his aging nephew Leon lived together in a rented Paris house in a style all their own. Both were Breton noblemen, but Elie looked like a tramp, his rags held together with string, and Leon looked like a hired man. Uncle Elie and Leon had lived together for 40 years, ever since they had given up the attempt to get ahead in the world. As a young man Leon had excelled at writing Latin verse, had a facile talent for music and painting, had once invented an apparatus for enlarging photographs, but the only thing...
...plots of neither of these pictures are new. In the former, the weak man turns he-devil half by accident and regains the stolen bonds and wins the girl. In the latter, the tramp becomes bank president and is threatened with exposure and has to live it down to make everything end happily. The Paramount News was received with anti-administration cheering while the Voice of Experience seems to remain unappreciated by this college audience despite the obvious sincerity of his human interest story. His dramatic showmanship seems to mar all his shorts. It is, altogether, a good examination period...
East of Java (Universal). An ex-gangster named Red Bowers (Charles Bickford) becomes a leader of men when cast ashore on an island off East Africa together with the crew, passengers and cargo, mostly lions, of the tramp steamer Sea Dragon. East of Java was adapted from Gouverneur Morris' Tiger Island by able Screenwriter James Creelman, and regardless of its minor sins against credulity it has a reckless tempo and a tendency for killing off its cast, unusual and charming as a contrast to the current prissy mode of photographing people who sit around on sofas talking imitation Philip...
...Government ... to grant substantial relief to the small taxpayer. I am gratified to observe a further steady increase in employment among my people. . . . Important postal, telegraph and telephone concessions have been made during the year. . . . Measures have been enacted for further assistance to the agricultural industry ... the herring industry . . . tramp shipping...